Biden at CAP
Conveniently enough, the Center for American Progress Action Fund hosted a Joe Biden event a few months ago at which he delivered a speech about Iraq and foreign policy more generally. You can watch the whole thing. This seems insightful and well-put to me:
Biden argued that the costs of our involvement in Iraq have outweighed the benefits and have ironically strengthened the greatest challenge to U.S. interests in the region: Iran. But “the idea that we can wipe out every vestige of Iran’s influence in Iraq is a fantasy,” Biden said. “Even with 160,000 American troops in Iraq, Prime Minister Maliki, our ally in Baghdad, greets Iran’s leader with kisses—Iran is a major regional power and it shares a long border—and a long history—with Iraq. Right now, Iran loves the status quo, with 140,000 Americans troops bogged down and bleeding, caught in a cross fire of intra-Shi’a rivalry and Sunni-Shi’a civil war.”
Biden explained that by “drawing down, we can take away Iran’s ability to wage a proxy war against our troops and force Tehran to concentrate on avoiding turmoil inside Iraq’s borders and instability beyond them.”
Watching Biden’s announcement speech now.
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August 23rd, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Now that Biden’s the Democratic VP nominee, would you mind addressing his plan to carve up Iraq into ethnically-cleansed partitions?
August 23rd, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Just tossing this out there at the political reporters: McCain wanted to announce his veep pick in front of a crowd of 10,000 in Dayton, OH next Friday. How are they doing at scaring up 10,000 people? I haven’t heard anything about tickets immediately selling out. (And have heard that Cincinatti would be a better choice, and the Nutter center is inconveniently in the boonies.)
August 23rd, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Sure, those are great insights by Biden, but where the hell were his great insights back in 2002-03 when it really mattered?
August 24th, 2008 at 1:45 am
And of course that Biden sees Iran as a “threat” – like Obama does – means we won’t be avoiding a war with Iran even if McCain does lose – which is beginning to seem unlikely as McCain eats away at Obama’s leading points over national security issues.
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