This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, August 4th, 2020.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Many Americans are ready to get away from the emotionally triggered

foreign policy of President Trump?

An important question though is would Joe Biden's engagements with foreign power be any

more productive?

John Glazer directs foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute.

He discusses the Biden record on foreign policy and where it differs from the current president.

For all the criticism of Donald Trump as a foreign policy president as the chief

diplomat for the United States you can say that he has some strong positive impulses and not a really good idea of how to execute on a lot of those impulses. What do we know about Joe Biden with respect to foreign

policy? What are his impulses and how strategic would he be about implementing?

Yeah, I mean, it's certainly hard to tell how a potential Biden presidency would pursue foreign policy.

It's just in the future too much speculation too many things to

to think about but Biden does have a long record of foreign policy. You know he was

obviously vice president in which he engaged in a lot of foreign policy activity.

He was on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for 30 years prior to that.

He's taken a lot of vocal positions on foreign policy over the year, so we do have stuff to draw on.

I'd say Biden is a

strong point for the reasons I just mentioned.

But he's pretty mainstream on foreign policy,

I would say.

He voted for the Iraq war even though he pretty rapidly regretted that vote

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