Biden: Republicans and our enemies

Article written by Joe at Delaware Online:

<Joe Lieberman writes that the Democratic Party he and I grew up in has drifted far from the foreign policy espoused by Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John Kennedy.

In fact, it is the policies that President George W. Bush has pursued, and that John McCain would continue, that are divorced from that great tradition -- and from the legacy of Republican presidents like Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

Sen. Lieberman is right: 9/11 was a pivotal moment. History will judge Mr. Bush's reaction less for the mistakes he made than for the opportunities he squandered.

The president had a historic opportunity to unite Americans and the world in common cause. Instead -- by exploiting the politics of fear, instigating an optional war in Iraq before finishing a necessary war in Afghanistan, and instituting policies on torture, detainees and domestic surveillance that fly in the face of our values and interests -- Mr. Bush divided Americans from each other and from the world.

At the heart of this failure is an obsession with the "war on terrorism" that ignores larger forces shaping the world: the emergence of China, India, Russia and Europe; the spread of lethal weapons and dangerous diseases; uncertain supplies of energy, food and water; the persistence of poverty; ethnic animosities and state failures; a rapidly warming planet; the challenge to nation states from above and below.

Instead, Mr. Bush has turned a small number of radical groups that hate America into a 10-foot tall existential monster that dictates every move we make.>

More at: http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080601/OPINION09/806010328/1004/OPINION

He is such an asset to the party - a real class act!

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Thanks for this. After my headache dissipates, I'll post it 'out there' if you haven't already.

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Feel free! Reading his intelligent, common sense words brought back memories of a saner time.

I have always liked the way Biden can take a complicated issue and explain it in simple, no-nonsense terms that anyone can understand without lessening the importance or missing the main point of the issue. He would have made a great teacher.

I've never heard a politician speak like he does. I really, really understand issues when he explains them. Just imagine what kind of a father he was.

It always amazes me the way he simplifies things. With all the crap you hear and read issues can become hard to follow. When he gets done explaining an issue...it's like ......duh.....now I get it.
He makes it simple for a simple person like me!!!
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Pakistan to him. And I was able to! The others may reference what's going on, but as you've all said, joe explains it so we get it!

and few people have it. Following Joe's campaign was an education for me. I learned so much about foreign affairs, he made everything so clear.