Open Democratic Party convention thread

Posted By Daniel W. Drezner Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 3:56 PM Share

I'm at a conference for the week.  Talk amongst yourselves about the massive PR exercise important political convention taking place right now.
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IAN

5:54 PM ET

August 26, 2008

Although the author of this

Although the author of this piece http://www.slate.com/id/2198517/pagenum/all/#page_start is obviously sympathetic to Biden, he provides some pretty damning quotes.

"Iraqis can't be happy. Biden has a questionable history with all things Iraqi: He voted against the first Gulf War, though he later regretted it, and in favor of the second Gulf War. (He didn't regret that; in 2005 he said that "the decision to go to war was the right one," but the candidate he's supposed to help made his name by opposing that same war.) He has suggested a partition of the country (he has been quiet about this position in recent months), and he opposed the surge, declaring, "The surge isn't going to work either tactically or strategically.""

"Can Biden support unilateral American intervention in places in which the United States has no direct strategic interest while rejecting such actions in places where the interest is clear? Apparently, he can."

 

Daniel W. Drezner is professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

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