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Joe Biden’s foreign policy expertise shines again

Posted by: ST on March 29, 2009 at 4:00 pm

José Guardia at the Barcepundit blog has a mini-translation of a story from a Spanish news outlet regarding the meeting VP Biden and Spain’s prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero had yesterday in Chile. Among other things, what did Biden “thank” Zapatero for? His efforts … in Iraq:

As everybody knows, the first decision Zapatero made after his unexpected win in 2004, right after the Madrid train terrorist attacks, was to abruptly and unilaterally pull out from Iraq. So either Biden made a gaffe, or he was thanking Zapatero for angering Bush…

I agree with Ed Morrissey here:

No, I think Biden would have been blunt enough to just say, “Thanks for ticking off George Bush.” It should be noted that the Spanish Finger to the US didn’t just include pulling out of Iraq, but also refusing to train Iraqi security forces.

And that’s not all, Guardia adds:

When I wrote the post I didn’t remember to add this, which makes things even worse: shortly after ordering the withdrawal of Spanish forces from Iraq, Zapatero called the other countries to follow the example. Some help, Biden.

What’s one of the featured stories at the NYT this weekend? A puff piece on Biden with the headline, “Speaking Freely, Biden Finds Influential Role” – it was published yesterday. President Obama was quoted as saying this about Biden:

Mr. Biden has settled into a role of what Mr. Obama compares to a basketball player “who does a bunch of things that don’t show up in the stat sheet,” the president said in an interview Friday. “He gets that extra rebound, takes the charge, makes that extra pass.”

And let’s not forget those frequent fouls …

This concludes another espisode of “Washington, DC’s Best and Brightest – 2009 Edition.”

(Via ST reader Anthony)

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    1. Dana says:
      March 29, 2009 at 7:22 pm

      If you’re wondering about the link, Elizabeth Miller is one of my frequent visitors who happens to be very much a supporter of our Vice President.

    2. NC Cop says:
      March 29, 2009 at 8:34 pm

      So we’ve got Ron Burgundy as President AND Forrest Gump as Vice President.

      I feel so much better……….8-|

    3. Tom the Redhunter says:
      March 29, 2009 at 9:17 pm

      Joe Biden is truly the dumbest man in washington. As we’re all familiar, this week President Obama released his new plan for Afghanistan. It’s pretty good, I think, and coming from me that’s something. Anyway, read on…

      The President rejected the “minimalist” approach advocated by some in his administration. Bill Gertz of The Washington Times has the scoop

      According to two U.S. government sources close to the issue, senior policymakers were divided over how comprehensive to make the strategy, involving an initial boost of 17,000 U.S. troops.

      On the one side were Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Deputy Secretary of State James B. Steinberg, who argued in closed-door meetings for a minimal strategy of stabilizing Afghanistan that one source described as a “lowest common denominator” approach.

      The goal of these advocates was to limit civilian and other nonmilitary efforts in Afghanistan and focus on a main military objective of denying safe haven to the Taliban and al Qaeda terrorists.

      The other side of the debate was led by Richard C. Holbrooke, the special envoy for the region, who along with U.S. Central Command leader Gen. David H. Petraeus and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton fought for a major nation-building effort.

      The Holbrooke-Petraeus-Clinton faction, according to the sources, prevailed. The result is expected to be a major, long-term military and civilian program to reinvent Afghanistan from one of the most backward, least developed nations to a relatively prosperous democratic state.

      It is absolutely predictable that our dope of a vice president was on the wrong side of the issue. A few years ago his solution for Iraq was to split it into three countries, a plan that had the dubious distinction of being opposed by virtually everybody in Iraq.

    4. Carlos says:
      March 30, 2009 at 1:01 pm

      Everything Joe the Copier says is virtually ignored today, too, but by the administration that has to keep him under tight mouth-security because they’re so busy ‘splaining what his boss “really” meant when he tosses out his daily gaffe.

      My opinion of Hawvud has never been too high, but it goes down every day because of those D.C. chumps who think it’s their dead God’s gift to intellectual humanity.