More Hawkishness Isn't the Answer for Biden

It is frankly bizarre to conclude that the problems with Biden’s foreign policy stem from being insufficiently hawkish.

The Wall Street Journal editors engage in their regular trolling:

But Mr. Biden’s muscular assertions in the written text of his Warsaw speech need to be supported by more than rhetoric. The U.S. and the West need to urgently restore and strengthen the credibility of their military and diplomatic deterrents. More hawkish advisers would send a more determined signal to the world—and especially to adversaries.

Specifically, the editorial calls for Biden to “bring some high-profile conservatives and Republicans into his Administration.” This is as far from a serious recommendation as it is possible to get. For one thing, it would be difficult to find anyone fitting this description that would want to join the Biden administration, and it is even harder to imagine that Biden would want the few that might be willing. It is risible to suggest that any veterans of the Trump administration join. That would leave a handful of discredited former Bush administration officials and hardline policymakers that have drifted from the GOP for domestic political reasons but otherwise remain unreconstructed warmongers. The Wall Street Journal would have Biden commit political suicide for fear of death.

It is frankly bizarre to conclude that the problems with Biden’s foreign policy stem from being insufficiently hawkish. Except for withdrawing from Afghanistan, one would be hard-pressed to identify a policy where Biden has not listened to his more hawkish advisers.