Ex-Biden officials are desperate for a Gaza scapegoat

There’s something profoundly human about the scapegoat. From the ancient Israelites and Greeks to the Aztecs, global cultures have long sought to concentrate society’s ills in a single vessel, cleansing the rest of us in the process.Today, the Democratic foreign-policy establishment is looking for a scapegoat of its own. Tainted by the sins of enabling Israeli conduct in Gaza and beyond, many national-security mandarins are seeking absolution by proxy, perhaps in hopes of returning to the halls of power in 2029. Joe Biden has emerged as the bearer of these iniquities. As numerous former Biden