War in Ukraine Overshadows Biden’s Big Moment
Demonstrators protest outside the White House on Sunday against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Photographer: Samuel Corum/BloombergGeorge W. Bush and Joe Biden are two U.S. presidents with almost nothing in common. One was a Republican who took the U.S. into war. The other is a Democrat who tried and failed to prevent one.
But both were dealt a foreign-policy blow around the time they had to deliver a State of the Union address. Bush seized the opportunity to lay out his doctrine about the need to take preemptive military action following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.