US Foreign Policy Unworthy of Our Status

“This list of examples could be continued indefinitely. I do not say that they are all reprehensible,” for politicians must compromise “in order to retain the privilege of conducting foreign policy at all….

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“But I do say that this tendency has often placed on American statesmanship the stamp of a certain histrionic futility, causing it to be ineffective...allowing it to degenerate into a mere striking of attitudes before the mirror of domestic political opinion. Until the American press and public learn to detect and repudiate such behavior, the country will not have a mature and effective foreign policy, worthy of a great power.”

How little has changed.

Ed Morrissey

Quite a bit has changed, actually. Leadership has grown not just morally flabby but overtly dishonorable, as evidenced in our bug-out from Kabul. We can include the change from a core value not to negotiate with terrorists, but now to demand that our allies acquiesce to them. In both cases, the author of that is the craven and demented Joe Biden. 

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