Hello, I'm Sarah Wildman,
staff writer and politics editor for New York Times Opinion.
Today I'm in conversation with columnist Nicholas Kristof on Biden's role in the war in Gaza.
Nick has been writing about the conflict since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7.
Most recently,
he wrote a major column on what he sees as Biden's complicity in the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Essentially,
Nick makes the case that the Israel-Hamas war is now Biden's war.
This conflict, he writes, will be a significant part of Biden's legacy.
Nick, thank you so much for joining me today.
I know it's a little early on your side of the country.
My pleasure.
Nick,
how do you think Biden wanted to position himself during this administration?
He's a veteran on foreign affairs.
He cares deeply about foreign affairs.
He's got a great foreign policy team,
and they bungled Afghanistan at the outset.
But then I think they did a very impressive job rallying Europe around Ukraine.
And I think that he thought that Ukraine was going to be his war.