Foreign Policy

Matthew Petti | From the January 2025 issue

In the January 2025 issue of Reason, we're giving performance reviews of Joe Biden's presidency. Click here to read the other entries.

President Joe Biden came to office promising to end "forever war," and that's the promise that could have been the easiest to fulfill. When it comes to war and peace, the U.S. president is more powerful than anyone else on earth. His promise was put to the test with the Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel. With each crisis, Biden seems to have grown more hawkish, embroiling the United States deeper in foreign wars.

Biden's most courageous foreign policy decision was also the one he received the most political punishment for. By the early 2020s, the war in........

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