ANALYSIS — President Joe Biden did more than merely honor D-Day veterans in France this week. He used high-profile stages to cast the world, and the United States, as being in a struggle between dictators and freedom.
And he made clear that struggle includes both war-ravaged Ukraine and the bitterly divided United States.
Before beginning his remarks Friday, Biden peered off the steep cliff at Pointe du Hoc, which U.S. Army soldiers scaled to take out German artillery positions during hellish fighting on June 6, 1944. Biden used the speech to call on the world — and his fellow Americans — to join a fight against a dictatorial wave.
