Foreign Policy Fog Ahead for U.S.

Haiti joins the list as the U.S. evacuates its embassy, marking the fifth such withdrawal in three years.

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“Biden’s National Security Adviser Navigates a World of Chaos,” Vivian Salama, Gordon Lubold, and Sabrina Siddiqui wrote for the Wall Street Journal this week.

“The sudden outbreak of renewed conflict in the Middle East was a shock to the Biden administration, but there was an early success,” the trio reported. “Just days after the Hamas assault, Sullivan led a series of calls to senior Israeli politicians to persuade them not to launch a pre-emptive attack on Hezbollah fighters, according to several administration officials.”

“U.S. intelligence, he told them, showed no imminent plans by the Lebanon-based group to attack,” the WSJ writers added. “Those calls headed off a potentially dangerous regional escalation of the conflict, officials said.”

Whatever U.S. officials may have said about foreign policy successes amid so many sudden, inexplicable, and unforeseen conflicts — in Afghanistan, Ukraine, Israel, Pakistan, and, more recently, Haiti, for example — most Americans are unsatisfied with U.S. foreign policy.

“A Third of Americans Satisfied With U.S. Global Position,” revealed Megan Brenan for Gallup on March 11. “Just over four in 10 think the U.S. has a favorable global…