Biden’s latest blunder! Humiliated at the UN, our carefree president abandoned Americans still held hostage by Hamas. What a depressing conclusion to his decades of cowardice!, writes DAN MCLAUGHLIN

In his final speech to the United Nations in New York on Tuesday, President Joe Biden attempted one last, brazen victory lap.

Tragically for the United States, there are not many victories on the world stage to celebrate.

As our diminished commander-in-chief stammered and stumbled through his prepared text, allies and enemies alike could not help but see the resemblance to a weakened nation.

The most pathetic thing is that Biden had little to say about his fellow citizens being held by the Hamas gang of thugs in tunnels under the rubble of Gaza since October 7.

At least seven Americans are believed to remain in captivity. Three of them may already be dead.

The leader of the free world will not name them.

But I will.

Keith Siegel, 65, Sagui Dekel-Chen, 36, Edan Alexander, 20, and Omer Neutra, 22, are believed to be alive.

Itay Chen, 19, Judith Weinstein, 70, and Gadi Haggai, 73, are suspected of being killed.

Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, was executed by Hamas late last month when the Israel Defense Forces closed in on his captors. His parents spoke at the Democratic National Convention.

Didn’t they deserve to be recognized?

When Biden vaguely mentioned the hostages’ families, he said they were “going through hell,” before quickly adding that Gazans are also “going through hell.”

This is the kind of ambiguity and vagueness that permeates management.

And it is a custom adopted by the Vice President, a woman who says she is willing to put out a world on fire but refuses to say how she will do it.

While Biden and Kamala Harris pay lip service to Israel’s right to defend itself, they fail to say that the Jewish state has the right – or even the obligation – to eradicate Hamas and Hezbollah from its borders.

The White House is warning Israel not to unleash a “wider war” in the region, but has remained largely silent for months as Iranian-funded Hezbollah rockets rain down on northern Israel, forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes.

Biden and Harris call for a “ceasefire” but do not confront Hamas and demand the return of the hostages.

So what has the Biden-Harris administration done?

They approved the construction of a $320 million “humanitarian” pier off the coast of Gaza, which collapsed without doing much.

They have withheld arms supplies to Israel and avoided imposing truly crippling sanctions on Iran.

At least Biden admitted Tuesday what Democrats have long denied: that leaving Afghanistan to the Taliban was his idea, not something Donald Trump forced on him.

“I was determined to get this done, and I did it,” Biden boasted, no matter the cost or the incompetence with which he did it.

Biden said he thinks “every day” about the 13 U.S. service members killed during the 2020 withdrawal, yet during his disastrous June debate he claimed that no U.S. soldiers died under his command.

Harris continued that duplicity by claiming in her televised debate with Trump earlier this month that the U.S. has no troops in combat zones — news to the 40,000 troops deployed across the Middle East. The Pentagon announced last week that a “small number” of additional U.S. military personnel will be sent.

If you knew Biden’s record before he became president, you might have predicted the magnitude of this disappointment.

In 2014, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Biden “has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”

Ten years later, Gates might revise that statement and say, “five decades.”

Biden did not address the UN about the porous southern border of the United States, the cartels that traffic and abuse migrants or Mexico’s slide into authoritarianism and caudillismo.

He also apparently forgot about Chinese threats to Taiwan, but weakly thanked the communist regime for supposedly helping to control fentanyl trafficking.

Biden touted his support for Ukraine, but of course that country was at peace when Biden said he would tolerate a “small incursion” by Russia into its territory; now, two and a half years later, it remains mired in a bloody stalemate.

The President closed by talking about the importance of democracy and how he abandoned his re-election campaign because “some things are more important than staying in power.”

Everyone in the room knows that he dropped out of the race only because he was going to lose.

Now Harris assumes the mantle of prevarication of the man she once defended even after his derangement became apparent to all.

This was Biden’s last babble.

But replacing this old engine with a younger model will not change the fact that they are heading in the same wrong direction.