Peter Van Buren

Joe Biden’s failure of leadership

Joe Biden at Moffett Federal Airfield in California, 19 January 2023 (Getty Images)

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Peter Van Buren
Peter Van Buren is the author of ‘We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People’, ‘Hooper’s War: A Novel of WWII Japan’ and ‘Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the 99 Percent’.

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