Joe Biden, the one who was supposed to bring foreign policy credentials to Obama’s ticket, likes to take credit for any undeniable display of progress in Iraq, but the one actual proposal he had for Iraq, that ridiculous partition plan, would have made situations in Iraq worse, and Iraqi leaders opposed it.
On Sunday, when Mr. Biden was asked about the current progress in Iraq, he managed to take the lion’s share of the credit: “I’m encouraged because they’re doing the things I suggested . . . That’s why it is moving toward some mild possibility of a resolution.” But we should be grateful that Iraqis did not do as he suggested. Mr. Biden’s frustration with the looming Iraqi civil war in 2006 and early 2007 was understandable. The U.S. was on the verge of total defeat and Iraq was at risk of collapse. But Mr. Biden’s plan would have inflamed Iraq’s already volatile situation.
Biden may have foreign “experience”, but he clearly doesn’t have the judgment.
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