President Biden from time to time gets confused in the speeches he gives. In the past week, he has confused himself several times in an embarrassing way, mistaking Fallujah for Kherson, confusing Cambodia with Colombia, and announcing that he was flying to Cairo instead of Sharm el-Sheikh.
For the second time in a week, President Biden is once again confused and scattered among the countries of the world. The president, who is approaching 80, confused Colombia and Cambodia while speaking Saturday at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit. It was his first public speech at the event, after a marathon trip that included two long flights and a three-hour layover in Egypt.
“It was an honor to host the prime minister at the White House in May, and now that we are together again in Cambodia,” Biden said as he opened the talks last Saturday. “I look forward to building even stronger progress than we’ve already made. I want to thank the prime minister of Colombia as chairman of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.” Last Thursday, as he left for the summit, Biden told reporters he was “going to Colombia” and then corrected himself.
He then mistakenly said he was traveling to climate talks in Cairo, the capital of Egypt, and not Sharm el-Sheikh, where he arrived and gave a speech during the COP27 climate conference.
These things are a continuation of a series of mistakes on the part of Biden who said last week: he got involved between Ukraine and Fallujah (Iraq) when asked when the war between Russia and Ukraine will end. “I don’t think the conflict with Russia and Ukraine will be resolved until Ukraine gets out – until Putin gets out of Ukraine,” Biden said. The president mistakenly said that Russian forces were withdrawing from Fallujah (a city in Iraq) while referring to the city of Kherson in southeastern Ukraine.
In November and December 2004, Fallujah was at the center of the bloody conflict that US forces fought in Iraq against ISIS. About 12,000 American soldiers fought in the battle, 82 of them were killed, about 600 more were wounded, according to the Pentagon. The United States killed about 2,000 ISIS terrorists in the battle and captured another 1,200, American military officials estimated.