Dictators are bad, except, well, when they’re kind of OK: welcome to the moral gymnastics that Joe Biden is only the latest US president to embrace in a complicated world.<\/p>\n
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Biden’s decision to exclude the far-left leaders of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela from this week’s regional Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles is being touted as US defense of democracy in action.<\/p>\n
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“We just don\u2019t believe dictators should be invited and… and so we don\u2019t regret that,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. “The president will stand by his principle.”<\/p>\n
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