TWIB: Head of Blob defends Blob

Plus: China threat inflation; How the US baited the USSR into Afghanistan; Does more humane war mean more war? etc.

Richard Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations—the closest thing there is to a single institutional incarnation of the America foreign policy establishment—and he brings good news: the American foreign policy establishment is performing well.

This week the New York Times ran a piece about how President Biden, by withdrawing all troops fr…