Foreign Policy Is a Serious Liability for Biden

Because Biden’s supporters have made so much out of his foreign policy experience, his poor performance has been that much harder to deny.

If this is what they think, Biden needs some new senior advisers:

Some Democrats close to the president believe he has become unavoidably bogged down on foreign affairs — including trying to manage Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has frustrated the White House with his conduct of the war. Though Sunday’s attack will place further strain on Biden, his senior advisers believe that foreign policy presents an opportunity to show his decades of experience, which they believe they can contrast with Trump [bold mine-DL].

The president’s poor handling of the war in Gaza and related issues in the Middle East has been a sharp rebuke to the idea that Biden’s “decades of experience” are worth something. If this is what Biden is doing with the benefit of decades of experience, it seems that he hasn’t learned much over the years. The president and his allies have made a big deal out of his supposed expertise and competence in this area, but the reality is that his foreign policy has been defined to a large extent by his poor and/or outdated understanding of the issues and terrible execution. Because Biden’s supporters have made so much out of his foreign policy experience, his poor performance has been that much harder to deny.