Joe Biden — even at his most inarticulate, and even with his voice weakened by age — has more gut commitment to and understanding of what America at its best means to the world, and who our real friends are and must always be, than every member of the Trump administration combined.

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so no, I don't think "they'll never trust us again" is really the biggest problem. It's more that Americans are going to have to engage in the foreign policy equivalent of pissing into a cup to get a job