'Independence Day' summer meets with yawns
One dares hope that our latest foreign policy disaster, Afghanistan, might derail us from our foreign policy disasters in the making, such as Russia and China.
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It is a fateful congruence that our countrymen's intentions for us rational folks, the non-woke, have been laid bare just in time for the potentially nuclear war that their president has escalated by sending two warships to the Black Sea last week to confront Russia over Ukraine.
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When President Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin and invited him for a summit, I felt a relief almost like back in 1962, when I heard on the news that John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev had made a deal to resolve the Cuban missile crisis and avoid nuclear war.
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Earlier this month, in his first speech as secretary of state, Antony Blinken underscored that "the president has promised diplomacy -- not military action -- will always come first." He was building on a sentence from a moment earlier: "More than at any other time in my career -- maybe in my lifetime -- distinctions between domestic and foreign policy have simply fallen away."
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In his recent speech outlining the new U.S. foreign policy vision Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a really sensational statement: "We will not promote democracy through costly military interventions or by attempting to overthrow authoritarian regimes by force. We have tried these tactics in the past. However well intentioned, they haven't worked."
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So agape was the world at the Jan. 6 spectacle of conservatives setting themselves up for moral equivalence with the left that everyone forgot to invoke the invisible hand of Russia-Putin.
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It is an undeniable fact that presently America is experiencing serious challenges on both domestic and foreign fronts. The dramatic polarization of society, the largest number of pandemic victims and major disputes between the nuclear powers require strong leadership and social unity.
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