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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
President Joe Biden’s remark Monday about a U.S. military response should China invade Taiwan was no gaffe and didn’t deserve to be walked back by his aides. Biden knew exactly what he was saying. He stated it three different ways at a news conference as Japan’s prime minister stood beside him. Despite all his previous malaprops and fumbled syntax, in this case, Biden said exactly what needed to be said, and what the world needed to hear. U.S. national security and global security are one in the same. The isolationism embraced by a fringe group of congressional Republicans represents the kinds…