Imagine A President Joe Biden: What Would Be A Progressive Foreign Policy?

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Lol that’s all you got? Not even a smidge of thought about Biden’s foreign policy?
 
Who said it was anything more than an opinion piece? It’s from Antiwar.com. Anything they publish is just that. Otherwise they’re a list of links to news articles.

This is the kind of political partisanship that annoys me. It reminds me of all the faux antiwar sentiment drummed up by the left during the Bush years. Then Obama came into office and it was business as usual, only this time the ‘progressives’ cheered like chickenhawks from the sidelines as Libya was bombed, Bahrain was forgotten, troop buildup in Africa increased, drone strikes set a new record even over Bush, etc.
 
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Lol that’s all you got? Not even a smidge of thought about Biden’s foreign policy?
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Biden’s foreign policy consists mainly of platitudes devoid of real content.

But when he gets fairly specific, it’s mainly about committing the U.S. to climate change politics, abortion in foreign countries, reducing the U.S. nuclear arsenal, and placating Iran. There’s not much else to it.
 
Except I suspect China would be one of Biden’s "BEST GUYS. There are all the American companies to please with cheap products produced with slave labor in China, and then there’s that 1.5 Billion dollars the Chinese bank loaned to Hunter Biden.

I could be wrong, but I expect China will own Joe Biden, lock, stock and barrel.
 
It was an opinion piece. Not an authoritative source of Biden’s foreign policy.
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All the things listed as the history of progressive foreign policy are factual claims, that could be verified or denied. Biden essentially markets himself as a continuation of the Obama administration, so we can expect the same stuff from him.
 
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No problem, I read it when it was first posted hours ago. I’m not very interested in the author’s own prescriptions for what a good foreign policy would look like, but it’s a useful recap of the history of American intervention under Obama.
 
Antiwar.com is an interesting clearing house for views. I know they’ve published Chomsky, Ron Paul, Michael Scheuer, Alexander Cockburn.

Cockburn I miss. After him Counterpunch became boring and I rarely bother reading it any more.
 
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It was an opinion piece. Not an authoritative source of Biden’s foreign policy.
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What’s wrong with speculating about Biden’s future? Also, we have decades of records to gauge his future direction.

He’ll be an open borders neocon & friend of China
pretty much what we saw with the Obama Admin.
 
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Less micro management of the economy, free trading, maintain the good relationships we have with our allies, and assemble a talented bipartisan team of advisers.
 
And how many interventions in small countries? How many drone attacks? How many endorsements of dictators and attacks like what happened in Yemen?
 
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LeafByNiggle:
It was an opinion piece. Not an authoritative source of Biden’s foreign policy.
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What’s wrong with speculating about Biden’s future?
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Nothing wrong with speculating, as long as it is labelled as speculating.
 
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LeafByNiggle:
Nothing wrong with speculating, as long as it is labelled as speculating.
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Are we going back to the tired argument that opinion pieces (if they disagree with my opinion) don’t belong in world news?
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No, that ship has sailed a long time ago. But opinion pieces that are passed off as objective news needs to be relabeled.
 
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No, that ship has sailed a long time ago. But opinion pieces that are passed off as objective news needs to be relabeled.
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Dude. Look at the title of the article. Look at the site it came from. This wasn’t an academic look at foreign policy complete with an abstract at the beginning. It was a piece by a writer. I don’t understand what your problem with it is, other than that any criticism of Biden for whatever reason is becoming increasingly verboten on this forum.
 
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LeafByNiggle:
No, that ship has sailed a long time ago. But opinion pieces that are passed off as objective news needs to be relabeled.
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Dude. Look at the title of the article. Look at the site it came from. This wasn’t an academic look at foreign policy complete with an abstract at the beginning. It was a piece by a writer. I don’t understand what your problem with it is, other than that any criticism of Biden for whatever reason is becoming increasingly verboten on this forum.
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Like I said, opinion is fine. Go ahead and offer your opinion about Biden. Criticize him all you want. I won’t try to stop you. It is not verboten.
 
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