Cato Responds: Biden Foreign Legacy Remarks

With just days left in office, President Joe Biden held his final remarks on foreign policy, highlighting his legacy by arguing that his administration strengthened the United States’ global standing. But his policies did no such thing, as Jon Hoffman, a research fellow at the Cato Institute, points out in his statement:

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President Biden’s speech was detached from any semblance of reality. To pretend the Biden administration’s foreign policy was anything other than a colossal failure is a massive disservice to the United States and the world. Nowhere is the hollowness of the president’s words more apparent than his discussion of Gaza, where his administration has subsidized Israel’s brutal war, to the detriment of US interests and Middle East stability. Biden’s emphatic embrace of Israel’s war has tarnished Washington’s image as a lodestar of liberal values, making a mockery of claims about a US-led ‘liberal international order.’ There are many words to describe the Biden administration’s foreign policy, but success is certainly not one of them.

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Justin Logan, director of defense and foreign policy studies, also commented on the event as it happened on X, formerly known as Twitter.

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