LE FIGARO.- In a recent editorial published in the
Washington Post,
you express your concern
about Joe Biden's
“muscular liberalism”
in foreign policy.
You mention his declared desire to make the defense of democracy
“the galvanizing force”
of his diplomacy.
You say this is not a sensible policy.
Why?
Elbridge COLBY.
- I look at this subject from a fundamentally realistic point of view.
This Administration seems to want to implement a foreign policy with "liberal hawk" rhetoric such as we had not seen since Clinton, and perhaps even Kennedy.
President Biden would like the comparison with Kennedy, but for me it is associated with Vietnam and the clash with Cuba, the Bay of Pigs… There is even an echo of the Vienna summit between Khrushchev and Kennedy in the summit of Anchorage which has just been held with the Chinese!
At the time, Khrushchev had acquired the idea that he could put Kennedy under pressure.
I do not say
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