President Joe Biden is to visit the State Department today to boast about his foreign policy accomplishments. It should be a very short speech. Unfortunately, it will surely be long, at best, highly selective – and, more likely, characteristically thoroughly dishonest. Put simply, Biden inherited from Donald Trump a world largely at peace; Biden bequeaths to him one engulfed in chaos and conflict.
Donald Trump bequeathed to Joe Biden a Middle East that was stable, increasingly prosperous and as peaceable as it had been in decades with our ally, Israel, strong, secure and the region’s de facto hegemon. Contributing factors were: the United States’ high standing, which combined with respect for Israel’s power and the two allies’ shared resolve to anchor the Abraham Accords, made them not simply peace treaties on paper, but the foundation for a formidable, if informal, Mideast alliance.
The Top Line Under extreme duress by the Biden administration, Israel’s Cabinet today approved “in principle” a so-called “ceasefire” in Lebanon. It did so with extreme reluctance and despite the certainty correctly shared by the vast majority of Israelis that the result will not be an end to their war with Hezbollah. To the contrary, … Read more