Biden’s Foreign Policy Chiefs Aren’t Boring—Unfortunately

The Houston Courant ^ | 12/2/2020 | B. Vasoli

[The Houston Courant]

Joe Biden has begun staffing the upper ranks of the U.S. Treasury and Council of Economic Advisers with union-doting, tax-loving, spending-happy economists sure to raise the blood pressure of anyone wistful about the American free market. Some reckon Biden might even nominate his abortive socialist ex-rival, Bernie Sanders, as labor secretary. (Cringe.)

Compared with all the ado over Biden’s domestic-policy chiefs, his top foreign-policy appointees have been met with a collective “whatever.” Graeme Wood of The Atlantic called the first three nominees Biden announced “the equivalent of a warm cup of Ovaltine with a melatonin chaser.” Yet secretary of state hopeful Antony Blinken, expected secretary of defense nominee Michèle Flournoy, and prospective national security adviser Jake Sullivan are all exciting picks. And not in a good way.

Despite his humdrum characterization of these old-hand bureaucrats, Wood fleetingly acknowledges their past failures. Blinken, Flournoy, and Sullivan all worked in the Obama administration in the agencies to which Biden is respectively appointing them. And yet, after imputing to them a wizardly “hypercompetence,” Wood writes, “The bad news is that 2016, the last full year in which this hypercompetent team was in power, was a bit of a nightmare, particularly in the Middle East. The Obama administration… tried supporting Libyan rebels with weapons but not nation building, and supporting Syrian rebels with neither weapons nor nation building. Both countries devolved into apocalyptic messes.”

[Liz]

(H/T robel)

The deepstate is likely informing Biden that he will be creating a series of new czar positions:
<><> A Truth czar, to confirm that 2020 was the “most secure” election in US history.
<><> A Re-Education czar, to help the ignorant deplorables to learn .......and accept the truth.
<><> An Internment Camp czar, to give the stubborn deplorables a little extra incentive to accept the truth.
<><> An Organ Donor czar, for hopeless patriots, who can at least do something useful for the State.