Joe the Dove
Despite the disastrous attack in Kabul — an excellent illustration of Joe Biden was right to end the war despite the political price the Blob and its media allies have imposed — the fact is that Joe Biden has dramatically reduced the number of drone strikes:
I didn’t appreciate how Biden has all but halted the drone war, especially compared to Trump https://t.co/kjTNuWdw3r pic.twitter.com/wE7qyqjAmO— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper) November 30, 2021
One thing I got wrong about Biden in both 2016 and 2020 was to downplay the relatively dovish stances he took as Vice President. It’s easier to express skepticism from a position without ultimate authority, and his skepticism about Iraq War didn’t translate into a “no” vote even after Gephardt helped the House pass an essentially no-strings-attached AUMF. But he seems to be one of the far too small number of political elites who really learned something from the Iraq War. His foreign policy is a huge improvement over Obama, let alone Trump the Mad Bomber.