Just like President Barack Obama seems to have a penchant for nonchalantly breaking promises, Vice President Joe Biden is cultivating his gift for sticking his foot in his mouth, or worse.
The latest? Essentially giving Israel a green light to bomb Iran. George Bush and his merry band of idiots weren’t even that stupid.
I mean, Biden is right that we can’t officially dictate another country’s foreign policy.
But, first, we try to do that all the time in private.
Second, given the seriousness of Iran-Israel issues, and hard-line governments now in power in both countries, plus hints that Israel has wanted to attack Iran before but was restrained by BushCo, you just don’t say that in public.
The NYT has more. Interestingly, neither Times nor AP connected Biden’s foot in mouth to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s request earlier today, via CNN, for talks with Obama. Even apart from that, the sensitivity of Iran right now made this a dumb comment in general.
Meanwhile, Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says any such U.S. attack could be “very destabilizing.”
Mark Lynch, aka Abu Aardvark, weighs in at Foreign Policy on just how bad a gaffe this is.
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