Are vaccine mandate foes digging a hole in the boat?
It’s not clear whether Joe Biden’s self-professed Irishness extends to familiarity with that country’s literary greats. But a line by Oscar Wilde, a Victorian playwright from Dublin, bodes ill for the president’s shaky foreign policy.
“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune,” remarks one of Wilde’s characters in The Importance of Being Earnest, but “to lose both looks like carelessness.”
Back in August, Biden’s loss of Afghanistan was unfortunate, to say the least, for American deterrence. Both Russia and China noted the new administration’s weakness, and acted. Three months later, an invasion-sized force appeared on Ukraine’s borders, and China ramped up threatening overflights of Taiwan.
To paraphrase Wilde, losing one ally is probably survivable; to lose a second would confirm Biden’s place in the pantheon of foreign policy disasters.
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