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Right You Are, Joe by Pete Hegseth on National Review Online

...Biden knows — as should voters — that our enemies see Barack Obama as a more accommodating, and weaker, foe. Unfriendly regimes and networks — from oil-rich dictators to radical Islamists — will seek to exploit a tepid American foreign policy. Biden knows Obama’s “peace through engagement” policy will invite attacks, not deter them.

Biden’s admission is born of his experience on and exposure to issues of national security. While no foreign-policy sage — he was wrong on the Cold War, wrong on the Gulf War, wrong on Iraq partition, inter alia — Biden is experienced enough to know that projecting weakness on the international stage invites aggression. Biden knows that “engagement,” while a good diplomatic word and a winner among the anti-war crowd that carried Obama to the Democratic nomination, is a clear signal to our enemies...

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