[This is a follow up and elaboration on my post of March 26, 2022.1 ]
In the 2020 presidential election, I didn’t vote for Joe Biden even though I wanted Donald Trump to lose. I couldn’t bring myself to vote for President Biden because, as Robert Gates said in 2014, “I think he's been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”2,3 Fortunately, I live in Illinois, so my vote was not necessary for President Biden to win Illinois’s electoral votes.
Which brings me to President Biden’s recent “gaffe tour” of Europe. Michel Kinsley famously defined a gaffe as “when a politician tells the truth – some obvious truth he isn't supposed to say." President Biden gave us two great examples of this on his trip. First, he said, apparently unscripted, that Vladimir Putin was a “war criminal.” That is probably true, but how is it helpful? We need to get the war in Ukraine over. How does making Vladimir Putin think he might be prosecuted as a war criminal help do that?4
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