Joe Biden’s audacious gambles

Sign up to get our new weekly column as a newsletter. We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. (CNN) Tom Stoppard’s play, “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” begins with the two minor characters from “Hamlet” betting on the toss of a coin. It comes up heads … and heads … and heads — 92 times in a row — and Guildenstern has to keep handing over his money. “I’m afraid it isn’t your day,” says Rosencrantz. “Life is a gamble, at terrible odds,” says another character near the end of the 1966 play , “if it was a bet you wouldn’t take it.” This week President Joe Biden continued taking some hard bets, hoping the coins will land his way. He set the pattern in January, days before he took office, by outlining a huge Covid relief package amounting to $1.9 trillion and then topped it last month with a proposal for a $2 trillion infrastructure bill. On Wednesday he made another consequential gamble by announcing he would pull all US troops out of Afghanistan , a decision his predecessors were tempted to make, but didn’t. Along with new tensions… Read full this story

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