Trump is lucky Thursday’s debate won’t focus on foreign policy

Published October 21, 2020 9:22pm ET



President Trump’s campaign is complaining that the last debate will cover a wide array of topics, rather than focusing on foreign policy as originally expected. Instead of complaining, Trump should be breathing sighs of relief.

Granted, Trump does have a few significant accomplishments in foreign affairs, almost all related to Israel. Primarily, his team stopped former President Obama’s habit of getting in the way of an ongoing rapprochement among Israel and some of its Arab neighbors, resulting in new, formal agreements between the Jewish homeland and, respectively, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. He also merits credit for the killing of Iranian terrorist chief Qasem Soleimani, and his team successfully concluded a territorial eviction of ISIS that had been nearly complete in the final days of the Obama administration.

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