As Joe Biden leads the Democratic field for 2020, the U.S.'s bloody history with Iraq is set to again become a defining issue in the race, and not simply because Trump has talked about an indefinite U.S. military presence there.
"You've got to ask yourself where Joe Biden is on the issues that are most important to you. Did he support the war in Iraq that forever destabilized the Middle East?" former Rep. Beto O'Rourke asked on MSNBC this week.
"The Biden hearings on Iraq were among the most substantive and helpful sessions I attended as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee," Feingold wrote.
In Iraqi eyes, Biden's suggestion "Reduces Iraq to that Orientalized caricature of three monolithic groups, and obviously after 2003 it was that kind of thinking that caused a lot of problems," said Fanar Haddad, a senior research fellow at the National University of Singapore who wrote a 2011 book.
Meeting with representatives of Allawi's diverse coalition "The full tapestry of Iraqi society clearly showing us the sort of Iraq they wanted to live in," Sky writes Biden made the same point.
Tony Blinken, a longtime Biden aide, told the magazine their team didn't seek a sectarian government and felt let down after putting faith in Maliki echoing his boss' explanation that his Iraq war vote was simply a problem of placing trust in the wrong people and boosting the sense that this is a defining, and unfortunate, habit for Biden.
"You cannot expect the vice president of the United States to be an Iraq history expert. That's not reasonable. The question is, do you figure out who on your team knows a lot about Iraqi history and make sure you get thoroughly briefed? I did not see Biden do that," Ford said, adding that he felt the aides around Biden weren't doing enough outreach to colleagues with Iraq expertise.
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"You've got to ask yourself where Joe Biden is on the issues that are most important to you. Did he support the war in Iraq that forever destabilized the Middle East?" former Rep. Beto O'Rourke asked on MSNBC this week.
"The Biden hearings on Iraq were among the most substantive and helpful sessions I attended as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee," Feingold wrote.
In Iraqi eyes, Biden's suggestion "Reduces Iraq to that Orientalized caricature of three monolithic groups, and obviously after 2003 it was that kind of thinking that caused a lot of problems," said Fanar Haddad, a senior research fellow at the National University of Singapore who wrote a 2011 book.
Meeting with representatives of Allawi's diverse coalition "The full tapestry of Iraqi society clearly showing us the sort of Iraq they wanted to live in," Sky writes Biden made the same point.
Tony Blinken, a longtime Biden aide, told the magazine their team didn't seek a sectarian government and felt let down after putting faith in Maliki echoing his boss' explanation that his Iraq war vote was simply a problem of placing trust in the wrong people and boosting the sense that this is a defining, and unfortunate, habit for Biden.
"You cannot expect the vice president of the United States to be an Iraq history expert. That's not reasonable. The question is, do you figure out who on your team knows a lot about Iraqi history and make sure you get thoroughly briefed? I did not see Biden do that," Ford said, adding that he felt the aides around Biden weren't doing enough outreach to colleagues with Iraq expertise.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-iraq-invasion-isis_n_5d02d4e4e4b0dc17ef06d77a
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