Far from being a lame duck, the president can use his time in office to champion US democracy and tackle unfinished business abroad
magine an old man sitting by himself in a dingy all-night diner in downtown Washington. He has his back to the window, shoulders hunched, like the customer in, Edward Hopper’s famous painting. Joe – for the old man’s name is Joe – looks tired and mournful. Perhaps he’s thinking about what was, about what might have been. For him, it’s a nightmare.
Truth be told, it wasn’t a big success. America’s military intervention in support of UN famine relief and nation-building fuelled the Somali civil war. It led to the battle of Mogadishu and the greatest US military humiliation since Vietnam. It Will Biden seize the chance to further imprint and expand his legacy? In his TV address, he promised to press on with his domestic agenda: a stronger economy, lower living costs, civil rights. He stressed “saving our democracy” from the Trump menace. “Yet last week’s visit by Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister and war crimes suspect, was a forceful reminder that Biden has unfinished business in the Middle East.
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