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Welcome to Behind the News. My name is Doug Henwood. A return to normalcy today, two guests and two segments.

Anatole even will try to make sense of Biden's foreign policy as a whole, and Lily Lynch will talk about the emptying out of the Balkans.

Joe Biden's foreign policy has been consistently and impressively

supporting wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and

amping up tensions with China.

And his anointed successor, who has something like a 50-50 chance of succeeding him, looks

to be following suit.

Many people have read Kamala Harris's courting of endorsements from the Cheney's,

the Lizzandic of Our Times,

is mere pragmatic electioneering,

but they're far from the only Neocon's to endorse her.

Over a hundred former Republican foreign policy officials, including

the odious John Negroponte, who had a large hand in running Reagan's wars in Central America

in the 1980s, and George W. CIA director Michael Hayden who did a lot of warrantless

wiretapping when he ran the National Security Agency, signed a letter endorsing Harris

last month out of concern that Trump would be a poor Empire manager.

Another endorser, Bush's attorney general Alberto Gonzalez, who provided legal opinions

that justified torture. And as Ajita Chavez noted in the Intercept, a section from the 2020 Democratic

platform on ending forever wars and opposing regime change was completely

removed in 2024. The people who brought you their rock war are back.

These endorsements have been applauded by lots of liberals as a political victory for

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