Kamala Harris is hardly the first politician in history, or in the past three minutes, to sidestep questions she doesn’t want to answer or to seek refuge in platitudes. But on foreign policy especially, the vice president and candidate to succeed Joe Biden is showing remarkable, ahem, discipline in saying nothing compromising, and therefore nothing substantive at all. Too bad, because America’s voters, allies and adversaries would love to know, if not what she might do, at least how she thinks.
One case in point is the biggest national-security controversy of the past year: Israel’s escalating war against Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and Iran. ...