It wasn’t that Joe Biden vacated the time-tested plank of America First outright. No resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue can.
But blame it on the pummelling he and Kamala Harris got on their messy exit from Kabul or the frontal challenge to their authority from Paris, US President Joe Biden wore multilateralism on his sleeve at his debut address to the UN General Assembly (UNGA).
He wasn’t the global sheriff that Donald Trump, his predecessor, woke up believing every morning.
Instead, Biden delivered on Tuesday as if he were an elder sibling.
One who needed every other kid in the global family to chip in if the ship must not sink. Yes, sink irretrievably it could in 10 years, he feared.
If Trump despised Anthony Fauci and the science gang no matter how much sense they made on a spiraling pandemic and he kicked and screamed against a mask over his beautiful face (DT’s formulation), Biden was, quite rightly, wide awake to how Covid-19 had changed "the world and America" forever.
