Posted on 12/31/2020 6:30:53 AM PST by Onthebrink
A little old but worth it.
A SUCCESSFUL foreign policy begins at home. So does an unsuccessful one. Older readers may recall the days when American foreign policy represented a stable, shared understanding of the national interest, but American foreign policy has now polarized into two foreign policies: two sets of irreconcilable attitudes, each treating the world as a stage for the enactment of domestic partisan differences, one leg kicking away at the other.
Since 2008, Americans have launched themselves into one of their periodic recastings of their society. After Barack Obama and Donald Trump, two varieties of hope and change, just about everyone’s nerves are frayed. Domestically, the Biden-Harris administration should recognize that it was elected as a kind of half-time breather to give the public a break from politics, that it did not win in a “blue wave,” and that the right response is to encourage a national cool-out. Will it follow this course and seek to incorporate the successes of the Trump interregnum? Certainly not: the purpose of partisan government is to erase the traces of the previous regime and prevent its revival in the next elections. Will America’s rivals encourage this pause and the continuity in foreign policy that might ensue? No way. They’re winning.
The bipolar discontinuity between the Obama and Trump administrations’ foreign policies was not a freak event. It is the new normal. The Biden administration will be staffed by veterans of the Obama administration, and will revert, as far as possible, to Obama-era policies. Yet the 2024 elections are more likely than not to issue in a Republican presidency that flips back to Trump-era policies. This oscillation will persist until consensus, which collapsed during the George W. Bush presidency, is restored on a realistic footing.
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He will fail and the media will be blaming it on Trump.
bump
Obama didn't make his observation for nothing:
"Never underestimate Joe's ability to "eff" things up"
Under Biden the US embassy will be moved back to Tel Aviv, aid to Israel will be slashed, the ‘67 lines will be recognized, major military aid to the Hamas will begin as will it to various ‘Palestinian’ factions.
Iran will have all sanctions lifted and US nuclear experts will be sent to aid their quest for a working thermonuclear warhead, along with planes loads of cash.
Absolutely true. Joe will have media protection. The only problem joe will have is controlling his wacky liberal congresspeople and some liberal groups.
“Yet the 2024 elections are more likely than not to issue in a Republican presidency that flips back to Trump-era policies.”
No point in reading anything else from this moron after this sentence. They actually think the 2024 election will be more free than the next Venezuelan election!
He will not fail for long.
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