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Everyone in the media is talking up how much Senator Joe Biden (D-Delaware) is a great foreign policy expert and how great an addition he is to Senator Barack NObama’s (D-Illinois) campaign for President of the United States. However, the truth of the matter is that Senator “Hair Plugs” never had his record brought in to the daylight…until now. I want to be the first to make this prediction: The American public will never embrace a Vice President Joe Biden as much as they would a President John McCain. The simple answer is that it's the G.O.P.'s foreign policy versus Joe Biden's disasters that are his proposals. Let me be the first to say that if Joe Biden has control of American foreign policy as opposed to the back-stabbing, back-bencher blowhard that he is, America is in deep trouble. As a member of the United States Senate, Joe Biden supported detente, even after it was a proven failure. Detente died in late December of 1979 when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. It came to show that the Soviets could not be trusted. It took Ronald Reagan to take on "peace through strength" and "trust but verify" as the buzzwords of a Cold War policy based around the concept that we win and they lose. Despite this change in policy that actually worked, Biden hung on to detente and unilateral disarmament as a Cold War policy. Reagan was proven right and Biden was proven wrong. More than 10 years after the death of detente, Biden stepped in another bad foreign policy decision. In 1990, he expressed his opposition to United States intervention against Iraq in the liberation of Kuwait. For anyone who wants to know how that one turned out, Google "Highway of Death". This time, George H. W. Bush was proven right and Biden was proven wrong. More recently, John McCain and George W. Bush proposed and implemented a troop surge of 20,000 additional men and women to secure Iraq and give it a chance to pursue freedom. If this worked (which it did), it would be implemented in Afghanistan to finish the job there (which it will). What was Biden's proposal? Despite his vote for the war in 2002, Biden came with a stunningly bold and dumb proposal. He proposed that the United States, who he condemned for acting unilaterally in Iraq, divide Iraq in to three nations unilaterally. Sunni, Shia, and Kurdish nations would come about and possibly lead to a greater war in which the United States would have to intercede. The surge worked in reducing violence, casualties, and gave the Iraqi government the time needed to meet almost all of the 18 benchmarks agreed to by Congress and President Bush. Once again Biden was proven wrong at the expense of George W. Bush and John McCain. If Joe Biden is elected as Vice President to create the foreign policy of Barack NObama's administration, America is in trouble. I doubt that a foreign policy decision of NObama's will be proven right while Biden's will be proven wrong.
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