Hillary Clinton on Obama VP Pick

[furrbear]

in the L.A. Times this morning ...

"In naming my colleague and friend Joe Biden to be the vice presidential nominee, Barack Obama has continued in the best traditions for the vice presidency by selecting an exceptionally strong, experienced leader and devoted public servant. Senator Biden will be a purposeful and dynamic vice president who will help Senator Obama both win the presidency and govern this great country.”

Comments

[voxbaryton.livejournal.com]

The Kurds deserve their own country, so as far as I'm concerned your anecdote tells me that Biden knows exactly what he's doing.

[cipherpunk.livejournal.com]

Whether the Kurds deserve their own country is not the question. The question is whether a plan that will produce a shooting war between the US and Turkey, in which the US would be forced to defend Iraq and take up arms against a fellow NATO member for the first time in history, can honestly be called a plan to get us out of Iraq.

Biden's "plan" would either lead to the US and Turkey entering into armed conflict, or the US cutting and running while Turkey occupied northern Iraq and further destabilized the region. Neither one is a realistic option.