I was surprised to read an article in the Wall Street Journal by Dan Senor entitled “Biden Wanted to Break Up Iraq” as if that was a bad idea.
I have been promoting a division of Iraq into Sunni, Shia and Kurd areas for a long time now. A weak federal government would be entrusted with splitting oil revenues on a per capita basis between the three (3) autonomous regions so there would not be any fighting over who has the oil.
Dan Senor thinks the current Iraq plan is working even though there has been no progress on a unified Iraq government. In fact, battle lines are being drawn as we start pulling out.
The current Shiite government is INSISTING we pull out In Toto (no small force left behind just in case); no they want ALL Americans out.
The fact that Joe Biden formally presented the partition of Iraq plan before Congress makes me feel that the Democrats will have the better foreign policy because they have the foreign policy smarts, ala Biden. McCain, by stubbornly supporting Bush’s absolutely disastrous Iraq policy, gives me no confidence in his foreign policy talents which are backed up by Sarah Palin’s good looks and not much more.
I am starting to like the fact that Joe Biden will be a strong force in our foreign policy because it will be a major issue in the years to come.
Score one for the Democratic ticket!
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