Biden can't blame Congress for foreign policy failures.

With all 50 Republican senators and 2 Democratic holdouts (Manchin and Sinema) blocking most domestic initiatives, President Biden has a daunting obstacle to his bold, ambitious agenda to build back America better. Infrastructure, climate change, education, health care improvements are all jeopardized by Congressional obstinance.

But on foreign policy, it's all on Biden, and other than one spectacular success, it's a report card of Failure. That is because Congress decided 20 years ago after 911, to give any president a free hand to wage war, both hot and cold, with virtually no oversight whatsoever. And all four, from Bush Jr., Obama, Trump and now Biden, inevitably follow senseless and failed policies.

But let's acknowledge Biden's spectacular success, withdrawing all U.S. troops and ending our 20 year failed war in Afghanistan. That was largely inconceivable due to 20 years of presidents caving to pressure from the national security state; military, weapons makers, congressional hawks and pro war pundits to never end any endless war.

But possibly to allay their fears of expanding U.S. efforts for peace, Biden has held fast to his predecessors' worst policies, even ratcheting some up.

In two polices Biden reneged on his campaign promise for improvement. He vowed to return to the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement, a terrific war saving policy Biden supported as Obama's VP. But instead of quickly reversing Trump's utterly senseless 2017 withdrawal, Biden insists Iran negotiate a completely new agreement with onerous, expanded conditions; something to which Iran has justifiably said 'No way, Joe'. In so doing, Biden has destroyed his and America's credibility to negotiate sensibly on an issue that that can lead to a new, catastrophic war.

His other campaign promise reversal involves détente with Cuba. Just like with Iran, Biden assisted Obama's re-establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba, opening up Cuba to U.S. tourism, and pledge to end the embargo. Biden criticized Trump's reversal of Cuban détente and promised to re-engage. That promise was quickly jettisoned upon his inauguration with cruel U.S. sanctions against Cuba continuing into their 62nd year with no end in sight.

Biden also promised to end America's support for Saudi Arabia's cruel, murderous war in Yemen. Again, U.S. support continues unabated, putting millions of Yemenites at risk of starvation from the U.S.-Saudi blockade, if they aren't killed by U.S. bombs dropped from U.S. planes flown by Saudi pilots.

In Syria, Biden has doubled down on first Obama, then Trump’s criminal war to oust the Syrian government. He’s maintaining indefinitely the 900 troops that Trump positioned between the government and their oil resources they need to rebuild the country America helped devastate. Combined with cruel sanctions getting thousands of Syrian civilians killed from lack of food and medicine, Biden is the third straight president to dip his hands in the Syrian bloodbath.

Worst of all, Biden has continued Trump's new Cold Wars with Russia and China. Flirting with support for the corrupt, broken state of Ukraine in their efforts to regain the Crimea and their 2 eastern provinces from Russia, has nothing to do with our national interests. But it could lead to war with Russia if our commitments are not dialed down.

Same goes for our senseless ratcheting up of support for Taiwan in their relationship to China. Both Trump and Biden dumped 4 decades of strategic ambiguity regarding Taiwan, with diplomatic provocations galore, the most egregious of which is a near ironclad promise to defend them militarily if the need arises. That is more Biden recklessness that can end in war.

President Biden reminds me of the halfback with the ball and an open filed to the goal line. Alas, he just can't stop dropping the ball. If he does it enough times ....the ball will eventually explode.