From WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Tuesday, August 27th.

Some of what was included and some of what was excluded from the Democratic Convention has some progressive skeptics asking

what kind of foreign policy president would Harris actually be. On the war in Gaza, as you probably

know, the exclusion of any Palestinian from a speaking role became a public issue during the

convention. Also, her assertion in her acceptance speech that she and President Biden are

working around the clock because now is the time to get a hostage deal and ceasefire deal done,

and her acknowledgement of so many innocent lives lost and desperate, hungry people fleeing for

safety over and over again, and that the scale of suffering is heartbreaking.

All of those, as she put it, those are quotes from the Harris speech when she was talking about

Gaza, that all of that was too timid a statement for advocates of an arms embargo on Israel

to stop the bombing. And some progressives were also left

wondering about this stretch of Harris' speech. As Vice President, I have confronted threats to our

security, negotiated with foreign leaders, strengthened our alliances, and engaged with our brave troops overseas.

As Commander-in-Chief, I will ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal

fighting force in the world.

And I will fulfill our sacred obligation to care for our troops and their families.

And I will always honor and never disparage their service and their sacrifice.

Democratic convention delegates cheering for the most lethal fighting force in the world sounded unnecessarily militaristic to some. All this, of course,

is the opposite of the criticism that Biden and Harris have been getting from the Trump campaign,

which argues that it was their

weakness on foreign policy that made Iran and its proxies, including Hamas, as well as Vladimir

Putin and others, think they could get away with the military violence they've launched in the

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