In the course of a rambling speech yesterday at the Center for American Progress about why the United States should embrace the anti-American terrorists who run Iran, while abandoning the pro-American moderates who run Iraq, Joe “Malarkey!” Biden attempted to take a couple swings at John McCain’s vision for Iraq. Senator McCain, you’ll recall, spoke last week about his vision for victory in Iraq, in which he predicted, among other things, that–provided we continue to follow the advice of General Petraeus and General Odierno–the Iraqi government will increasingly be capable of securing its own country, with only minimal help from the United States. Senator Biden attempted to challenge this prediction, sneering: “John’s crystal ball also reveals a ‘government of Iraq capable of imposing its authority in every province of Iraq.’ Right now, it can’t even impose its authority in Baghdad.” Ha! What a wit, that Joe Biden! Alas for the senior Senator from Delaware, he might have wanted to pick up a newspaper before trotting over to CAP. As the lead story in the New York Times yesterday blared:
When it comes to foreign policy, could Democrats be any more divorced from the reality-based community?
