Biden's Foreign Policy: A Falling Tide

By Jonathan Jakubowski
Tuesday, 07 September 2021 09:16 AM
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America is back. Diplomacy is back at the center of our foreign policy. As I said in my inaugural address, we will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again, not to meet yesterday’s challenges, but today’s and tomorrow’s. … America’s alliances are our greatest asset, and leading with diplomacy means standing shoulder-to-shoulder with our allies and key partners once again. — Joe Biden
As complex as foreign policy may be, there is also a simplicity which governs international relations summed up by the following aphorism: A rising tide lifts all boats, while a falling tide sinks all ships. In a globalized world, our interconnectedness increases our vulnerability to others' decisions. Increasingly, decision-making on the global stage has a ripple effect felt throughout the world.
Yet, the president who heavily criticized his predecessor for unilateral decision-making left his allies completely in the dark during one of the most consequential decisions in this century. Needless to say, our allies have become disillusioned.
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Between the French, Germans and the U.K., political leaders have called Biden’s decision a catastrophic error of judgement, they have labeled his diplomacy a great delusion, and decried his actions as doing fundamental damage to the political and moral credibility of the West.
The botched pull-out of American troops, leaving behind billions of dollars of military equipment, hundreds of American citizens, thousands of Afghan allies, and a citizenry now ruled by an oppressive jihadist regime cannot be stored away in a memory hole.
The consequences of this error are already taking a toll with the tragic deaths of 13 American soldiers, and as I write there are six planes with American citizens being held hostage in northern Afghanistan. The tide is falling and the boats are sinking.
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