The great virtue of not having a political future is that leaders can actually speak their minds and say what needs to be said. Mostly, that moment comes at the end of a career, as when the celebrated World War II general turned president, Dwight Eisenhower, warned on leaving office in 1961 that the military-industrial complex was growing uncomfortably powerful for a peace-time democracy. Last week, it was Joe Biden’s turn to speak truth after power.
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