A number of voices on America's left are calling for a radical foreign policy rethink
shall pass,” Joe Biden told America’s allies at the Munich Security Conference in February. “We will be back.” The applause he received reflects a longing to return to a world order that existed before President Donald Trump started swinging his wrecking ball. Now that Mr Biden, vice-president under Barack Obama for eight years, has entered the race to challenge Mr Trump in 2020, the contest has acquired a foreign-policy heavyweight who embodies the pre-Trump era.
Mr Biden’s candidacy will draw attention to the foreign-policy record of the Obama administration. Mr Biden did not always agree with his boss. He pressed for a more muscular pushback against Russia , favoured a tougher approach to China, opposed the surge in Afghanistan and the intervention in Libya. But broadly he supported “95% of Mr Obama’s policies”, says a former foreign-policy adviser. As president, Mr Biden would be internationalist, experienced and familiar.
First, there are advocates for restraint on the right as well as on the left. Take the bill passed by Congress to end America’s support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. Mr Trump has vetoed the resolution, which was energetically championed by Democrats such as Ro Khanna in the House and Mr Sanders, along with Chris Murphy, in the Senate. But it got through the Senate because it also had support from several Republicans, including the bill’s libertarian-leaning co-sponsor, Mike Lee from Utah.
One promising avenue for this to happen is an attack on inequality and corruption. Both in America and abroad, Mr Sanders said in a well-crafted speech on foreign policy last October, “the struggle for democracy is bound up with the struggle against kleptocracy and corruption.” Mrs Warren echoed the theme in an article inTreating corruption as a strategic matter offers rich pickings for policy.
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