I don't think plugs is sufficiently competent to determine what the "right direction" is.
Posted on 04/09/2015 10:18:23 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
"[ISIS] momentum in Iraq has halted and in many places has been flat-out reversed," Biden told students and faculty at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in southeast Washington, D.C.
"We are pounding [ISIS] from the sky," he said, adding that ISIS can be beaten from Syria, too.
The speech came just days before a visit from Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to Washington. Biden applauded Abadi, congratulating him on his work negotiating oil deals and a budget, conducting foreign relations with neighbors and working to build a “functioning federalism” in Iraq.
Biden continued to advocate for strong federalism in Iraq, a position he has held for years.
"We want what Iraqis want: a united, federal and democratic Iraq ... where power is shared among all Iraqi communities," he told the decorated members of the U.S. military and foreign diplomats at the half-hour-long speech.
In 2006, Biden penned a New York Times op-ed article arguing for federalism in Iraq, with Kurdish, Sunni and Shiite territory and shared power, a position he reiterated as a presidential candidate in the 2008 race. He again echoed the position.
ISIS intended to tear Iraq apart, he said, but "actually united the Iraqis.”
Biden, a former chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has been criticized recently for some foreign policy positions. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote in his memoir last year that Biden "was wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue of the past four decades," and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton distanced herself from Biden in her own book, specifically with the regards to the successful U.S. raid that ended in the death of Osama bin Laden.
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Mark this.
In my heart of hearts I know that somehow this doofus Joe Biden was especially picked to be running mate and eventual VP.
He’s a doofus. My God, this man must have certainly suffered some type of continual brain affliction to be where he is now front & center...seems to me they only bring him out to support Junior when they feel like it-on command from valjar.
On the other hand I read a very in-depth article about Biden that was more than revealing and how HE has handled people over the years-I think it was in the New Yorker Magazine and how despicably he treats people.
He’s always touted as one who hasn’t made money or “become rich” off the back of taxpayers and hasn’t the lowest bank balance ever BUT.....and I say this with absolutely certainty and facts will back me up- ALL OF HIS ASSETS are in his wife’s name,etc.
Harry Reid has been around as long as Joe Biden and have had more or less the same tenure;Harry Reid’s financial background is public knowledge.
On another note: I wonder why Larry Reid beat up Harry Reid?
What was that over? any clues?
The court fool said to the Jester-King
Did JoJo the Clown say this before or after he commandeered an infant’s pacifier?
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