Commentary Even when the issues are terrorism and the threat of nuclear war (in the Middle East and Europe), elite media chatter and posturing by well-coiffed diplomats steer Biden administration policy—in Biden-speak chatter and posturing translating into the sacred word “perception.” Slow Joe made that boggling admission himself, his global confession wrapped in a superpower pal’s demand for posturing whether the threatened client’s posturing was “true or not.” My evidence: On Aug. 31 Reuters published a partial transcript of a July 23 phone call between Biden and Afghan government then-President Ashraf Ghani. BIDEN: “… I need not tell you the perception around the world and in parts of Afghanistan, I believe, is that things aren’t going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban. And there’s a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture.” Let that Biden statement sink in. …