WILMINGTON, Del. -- The Tuesday night speaking lineup for the Democratic National Convention was always intended as a muscular contrast on foreign policy and diplomatic integrity, presented to viewers under the evening's unsubtle theme: 'Leadership Matters.'There were two former commanders-in-chief
WILMINGTON, Del. — The Tuesday night speaking lineup for the Democratic National Convention was always intended as a muscular contrast on foreign policy and diplomatic integrity, presented to viewers under the evening’s unsubtle theme: “Leadership Matters.”
The relationship with China has turned poisonous. Biden’s party, still reeling from Russia’s election interference in 2016, has become more hawkish on dealing with Moscow than Republicans who once cast themselves as the party of national security. North Korea has turned a project to build a few bombs into an arsenal that rivals India’s and Pakistan’s, and reconstituting the Iran deal, if that is even possible, is unlikely to change the fundamental tensions dividing the Middle East.
By day’s end, the gravity of this split — and Biden’s long-running campaign theme of country-over-party leadership at home and abroad — had been reinforced by the latest turn in the seemingly ceaseless drama of Russia and the Trump 2016 campaign. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., a co-chair of Biden’s presidential campaign, described a sharp divide between Biden and Trump on matters of “experienced leadership, compassionate leadership, qualified leadership.”
But Powell was also the man who made the case for invading Iraq, as President George W. Bush’s most credible salesman — in a speech to the United Nations on Feb. 5, 2003, that he has said he deeply regrets, just as Biden regrets his initial support for the war. Still, as Trump struggles to define Biden, seeking to cast the Democratic ticket as radical and unpatriotic, Powell’s appearance seemed intended to reassure moderate Republicans about Biden’s judgment.
Certainly, Biden’s deep experience in foreign affairs — “I was one of those folks they call a ‘chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee,’” he once said grandly, at a veterans-focused event in 2012 — has not always translated into electoral success and has sometimes amounted to significant political liability.
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