The Demo­c­rat For­eign Pol­i­cy Plat­form: Don’t Believe Your Own Eyes

True to form, the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Party’s 2024 for­eign pol­i­cy plat­form is as full of his­tor­i­cal revi­sion­ism as one would pre­dict.
Its con­tents range from art­ful dodg­ing to out­right untruths. Most impor­tant­ly, the plat­form is divorced from the actu­al Biden-Har­ris for­eign pol­i­cy record of the last four years.
The most bla­tant omis­sions are on Afghanistan, found in a sec­tion absurd­ly titled “Lead­ing with Diplo­ma­cy and Amer­i­can Val­ues.” The plat­form gives a sin­gle cur­so­ry men­tion to the with­draw­al, stat­ing that the White House “ …