Joe Biden, Foreign Policy Hawk

David Thornton

David Thornton is a freelance writer and professional pilot who has also lived in Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia and Emmanuel College. He is Christian conservative/libertarian who was fortunate enough to have seen Ronald Reagan in person during his formative years. A former contributor to The Resurgent, David now writes for the Racket News with fellow Resurgent alum, Steve Berman, and his personal blog, CaptainKudzu. He currently lives with his wife and daughter near Columbus, Georgia. His son is serving in the US Air Force. You can find him on Twitter @CaptainKudzu and Facebook.

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  1. Philip H says:

    Biden has always been a hawk, as are far too many other Democratic politicians. He voted for the AUMF for Iraq, and supported the attacks in Afghanistan post-9/11.

    Democrats just don’t bombast publicly about this stuff.Report

  2. Casey Dean says:

    Trump is an old school republican. FDR was the interventionist. The Republicans wanted to keep our guns home.Report

  3. Pinky says:

    “Again, MAGA will say that the Russian invasion would not have happened if Trump had been president.”

    Putin invaded Ukraine before the Trump presidency. He held the territory during the Trump presidency. He invaded Ukraine after the Trump presidency. There are no counterfactuals here. Putin has advanced on Obama’s and Biden’s watch, not on Trump’s.

    As for the broader topic, I think that most presidents become more like their predecessors in foreign policy than they expect or are expected to be. Everyone imagines that when he becomes president, he’ll be able to advance his own policies and nothing bad will happen in the economy or the world. Then reality intervenes. On the foreign policy front, you end up wanting more military, facing down challenges, and having to negotiate with fair-weather friends just like every other president. I’d say that Obama’s fixation on bringing Iran into the family of nations was a discontinuity, as was Trump’s aggressiveness against China on trade, but those are rare.Report