The US Election is a Fork in the Road for the World, Too

Biden's UN Valedictory Remarks Make that Crystal Clear

Today, at the United Nations, President Biden gave his last address as president to the General Assembly of the United Nations.

To me, watching, there was a certain poignancy to the event. It seemed a valedictory to the world and in particular to the foreign policy community of which he has been such an active part for the past half century.

His remarks were a kind of tour of the horizon both of his foreign policy career and the challenges and watersheds he has seen as well as of the great issues of our time. Regarding the latter, of course, he was prescriptive, urging that the world continue to support the agenda that he has advocated with regard to Ukraine, seeking peace in the Middle East, democracy, combatting climate change and more.

His comments were not overtly political in any way. At one point he mentioned the Vice President as his partner in shaping the administration’s agenda of the past nearly four years. It was a grace note and surely a nod to her campaign.