The War in Gaza Reveals What's Wrong with Biden's Foreign Policy

The administration unquestioningly backed an atrocious war and then refused to reduce or end support for it no matter what happened.

David Rothkopf and Alon Pinkas will have a hard time reconciling these two judgments from their recent article:

Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, national security adviser Jake Sullivan, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, CIA Director Bill Burns, and their associates are quite simply the very best, most experienced, wisest group of foreign policy and national security professionals the U.S. has seen in over three decades. They’re among the best ever [bold mine-DL].

But their Israel-Gaza policy now threatens to overshadow all of that and to become a mistake that haunts them into the pages of history.

The authors rightly criticize the Biden administration for unconditionally backing the war in Gaza under Netanyahu, and they urge Biden to change course. They emphasize how highly they think of Biden and his team to soften the blow of their criticism and to signal that they are still ultimately on Biden’s side, but it’s hard to credit the assessment that the top administration officials are “among the best ever” when they have presided over such a colossal train wreck of a major policy.