President Joe Biden spoke a lot of words in his State of the Union address. Most of them were scripted. Some of them were not. None of them were “Iran,” “nuclear,” or “biggest U.S.-Israel military exercise ever.” This president is not given to speaking softly while carrying a big stick. To Biden’s credit, he has always been wary of big-stick diplomacy, if only because it leads to costly wars that the voters don’t like. To his discredit, Biden has always been prone to shouting loudly and often nonsensically. This, his big shtick, was displayed in all its stunted glory in...