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Joseph Biden Sen. (D) - Delaware/ Member of Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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From PBS Wide Angle-"The Saudi Question"
Transcript and Video - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/s...transcript.html
Mr. Biden elaborated a point that I wholeheartedly agree with in the latter part of the interview at the end of the Wide Angle episode about U.S. Foreign Policy today.
"Let me put it this way, if we get the next four years as badly wrong as we got the last four years in foreign policy, it'll take a generation to correct it. If we get the next four years as badly wrong as we've gotten the economy, we can correct it in four years. We can have a horrible tax policy that does great damage to our economy, and over a matter of a couple years, internally, at our own doing, we can change it. We can put in place a social policy that's mistaken on education and change it in one congress. We cannot continue the erosion of American influence, confidence in American judgment and American wisdom, and think you're going to turn it around in four years or six years or eight years. We can do that on welfare reform. We can do that on tax policy. We can do that on education policy. We can't do that on foreign policy. It's like turning around a super tanker or stopping a super tanker. It takes miles. So in that sense there's never been an election since the end of World War II that has as much of a consequence for America's place in the world as this election that is coming. It's the single most important election that has occurred in your lifetime or mine whether you're for Bush or for Kerry, a radically different view of the world"
This has been my point all along, I feel the actions under this administration with no WMDs being in Iraq has seriously eroded American credibility on the international arena as a global leader of the free world. I believe in a strong America, but not one that can preach democracy and freedoms yet utilize questionable, suspect, failed intelligence to attack another nation and unable to back up your principle claims for starting such a conflict.
I am afraid that we have gone down a road that no one knows where it will take us when it comes to Iraq and we cannot turn back as Mr. Biden highlighted akin to a super tanker. It takes generations to correct Foreign Policy mistakes and studying American history indepth I know our mistakes all too well. I hoped that WMDs were in Iraq for the sake of American credibility and moral standing as a bastion of freedom and democracy to the world, sadly there are no WMDs to justify Iraq's threat to us as being imminent.
Take the opportunity to view the video and keeep the discussion civil please on the combination of American Foreign Policy, Iraq and its effects for the fuure. |
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Diatribe from an ineffectual representative defeated in all his votes on bills before Congress. Wonder why that is? Very simple, he speaks for the minority.
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