Biden's foreign policy team has a record of being wrong

Washington Free Beacon:
Several of the foreign-policy hands most likely to join a Biden administration have been "consistently wrong" in their prognostications about the Trump administration’s global diplomacy, including their predictions that Trump's hardline policies would ignite war in the Middle East and make Israel less safe, a new report says.

The Democratic Alliance Initiative, a new conservative foreign-policy group, recently issued an investigation into leading liberal voices who are likely to play a central role in a Biden administration. It details how these so-called experts have consistently predicted catastrophe and conflict across the globe as a result of President Donald Trump’s foreign-policy decisions, particularly toward Iran and its allies.

Many of Biden's top advisers, including prominent names who served with him during the Obama administration, predicted that Trump’s efforts would isolate the United States and incite a military conflict. In reality, these policies have constrained Iran’s atomic weapons program, bolstered Israel’s security, and brought the Middle East closer to peace than ever before, the study says. If Biden wins the 2020 election, his administration is poised to roll back most of Trump's signature foreign-policy achievements. This would include rejoining the landmark nuclear deal and altering policies meant to bolster Israel's border security against an encroaching Iranian threat.

Former top Obama officials Samantha Power and Susan Rice, for instance, both foresaw bloodshed and even warfare after Trump ordered the assassination of Iranian terrorist leader Qassem Soleimani in January. Power, the former United Nations ambassador, predicted things would get "very ugly very quickly," while Rice, the former national security adviser, wrote in the New York Times that it was "hard to envision how this ends short of war." Power is a secretary of state contender should Biden win the presidency, and Rice was on the shortlist to be his 2020 running mate.
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Why would voters want such people in charge of foreign policy?  It is a question that should be asked of Biden at the debates.

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