From WSJopinion: The past two weeks make clear that the responsibility of providing long-term protection for the U.S. in an unfriendly world has defaulted to Republicans. It’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it, writes DanHenninger
Both Antony Blinken, President Biden’s secretary of state, and national security adviser Jake Sullivan havethere will be plenty of time when the evacuation is over to assess what happened. They are wrong. The time to come to grips with the long-term meaning of Kabul is now.
Since the Trump presidency, Republican thinking on foreign policy has been hibernating—hostage to whether Donald Trump is in or out as the party’s candidate in 2024. Sorry, time’s up. We can’t wait three years for GOP presidential hopefuls to gauge which way the base is blowing. After the Kabul debacle, the U.S. and the world desperately need prominent Republicans to articulate an alternative to the Biden doctrine, whatever’s left of it.
The stark reality is that effectively there is no Biden foreign policy. We are in a foreign-policy vacuum because of a conscious political choice about priorities. The real Biden doctrine is in the goal that Nancy Pelosi this week staked her speakership on—passing Mr. Biden’s $3.5 trillion domestic spending bill.
This is not just a bill about spending numbers. It is a do-or-die effort by the now-progressive party to enact four new lifetime entitlements—universal prekindergarten, universal child care payments, universal paid family and medical leave, and two years of community college. No one has been clearer about the stakes than Mrs.
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