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September 12, 2024

In the Debate, Both Candidates Failed the Foreign-Policy Test

America should want its allies to defeat its enemies.

The close cooperation between Iran and Russia, countries that cemented their alliance when their forces fought side by side in Syria, is a geopolitical reality that has little purchase in the American political conversation. Thus, observes John Podhoretz, neither candidate was able to make much of a coherent foreign-policy statement in Tuesday’s presidential debate:

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