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Joseph Biden has now been president just two shy of the vaunted "100
days." However arbitrary the designation, that’s a perhaps more
fitting benchmark than most for Biden, since he and his biggest fans have not-so-subtly
styled this commander-in-chief as a new
FDR – Franklin Delano Roosevelt, after all, being the first
to use the phrase. For the most part, such glowing analogies refer to domestic
agendas – infrastructure, healthcare, and jobs – plus both presidents’ presumably
paradigmatic pivot from unseemly predecessors, be they a Herbert Hoover or Donald
Trump. But what of foreign policy – what’s done in and to the world by select