I suspect Mead is just peddling this crap to keep his paycheck coming and his neo-con and neo-liberal editors at the WSJ happy.
As for Biden’s failure to protect human rights around the globe, I have to agree. He has kept Trump’s brutal sanctions policies in place even though they are literally crimes against humanity. This is par for the course for Biden, who has a long history of inflicting misery on his fellow citizens with his crime bill leading to mass incarceration, his bankruptcy bill leading to a generation of student debt slaves, his votes for NAFTA and China PNTR that lead to the deindustrialization of the US and loss of millions of jobs, and his authorship of the Patriot Act and his Iraq war vote.
The spectacle of Biden and the US hosting a Democracy Summit is a joke in very poor taste.
Also, it should be a felony to write a foreign policy op/ed that doesn't answer the questions, What should they have done differently, what would the different result have been, and how do you know? Just basic epistemology stuff.
So strange. My first thought was, Does he want to return to the good old days of propping up psychotic dictators who aren't anti-US, like we did in central and south America? And then I realized the answer is probably yes. By all means, let's give money and MANPADs to the next al Qaeda.
Power attracts sociopaths the way catnip attracts cats.
Sociopaths are prone to hubris because, as a rule, they accept no limits their power other than physical, nor are they restrained by any law of God or man, by norm or the concerns or sufferings of others, in getting what they so crave.
I suspect Mead is just peddling this crap to keep his paycheck coming and his neo-con and neo-liberal editors at the WSJ happy.
As for Biden’s failure to protect human rights around the globe, I have to agree. He has kept Trump’s brutal sanctions policies in place even though they are literally crimes against humanity. This is par for the course for Biden, who has a long history of inflicting misery on his fellow citizens with his crime bill leading to mass incarceration, his bankruptcy bill leading to a generation of student debt slaves, his votes for NAFTA and China PNTR that lead to the deindustrialization of the US and loss of millions of jobs, and his authorship of the Patriot Act and his Iraq war vote.
The spectacle of Biden and the US hosting a Democracy Summit is a joke in very poor taste.
Also, it should be a felony to write a foreign policy op/ed that doesn't answer the questions, What should they have done differently, what would the different result have been, and how do you know? Just basic epistemology stuff.
So strange. My first thought was, Does he want to return to the good old days of propping up psychotic dictators who aren't anti-US, like we did in central and south America? And then I realized the answer is probably yes. By all means, let's give money and MANPADs to the next al Qaeda.
Power attracts sociopaths the way catnip attracts cats.
Sociopaths are prone to hubris because, as a rule, they accept no limits their power other than physical, nor are they restrained by any law of God or man, by norm or the concerns or sufferings of others, in getting what they so crave.