https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2022-02-03/biden-eager-to-overcome-weak-label-with-raid-on-isis-leader-in-syria
President Joe Biden along with his supporters on Thursday appeared eager to capitalize on a much-needed national security win, touting his decision to risk the lives of American service members in a raid to kill the Islamic State groups latest leader rather than risking Syrian civilian casualties with an airstrike.
The language the commander in chief espoused in brief remarks from the White House mirrored that of his two immediate predecessors, who ordered similar raids and boasted of their consequences even as those for al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden in 2011 and ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2019 offered far greater name recognition and cache than for the latters successor, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, who was killed hours before Biden spoke Thursday morning.
Though his administration yearns to move beyond the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan last summer, which culminated in 13 dead Americans from an ISIS-affiliated attack, it remains unclear whether the latest news will prove consequential enough for the average American to believe in Biden who considers himself a key player in the bin Laden raid as the U.S. president who can protect them and the homeland.
Last year's botched withdrawal from Afghanistan really hurt Biden's brand of competence on security and more broadly on governing his drop in the polls coincided with America's unforced errors in Afghanistan, Brian Katulis, the Middle East Institutes vice president for policy, tells U.S. News.
@Indoril USnews is center left according to media bias check
seems they agree with it being a pr move