{"id":40480,"date":"2014-03-19T15:54:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T19:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40480"},"modified":"2014-03-19T15:54:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T19:54:22","slug":"being-bite-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40480","title":{"rendered":"Being Bite Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Biden<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Chief Tango sends us a link from the Washington Post<\/a> which reports that Joe Biden is uncharacteristically behaving himself while he tours Europe to buck-up our image there in the wake of the annexation of the Crimea this week. But, they admit that, Biden being Biden, he did inflate his support and his record of supporting Poland while in the Senate;<\/p>\n

There was but one minor slip in Warsaw Tuesday when he met with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.<\/p>\n

\u201cFifteen years ago,\u201d he said, \u201cI was honored as the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee to lead the fight for Poland\u2019s admission into NATO.\u201d But it turns out Republican Sen. Jesse Helms (N.C.) was chairman back then and led the effort in committee and in the Senate to grant the country\u2019s entry into NATO.<\/p>\n

Biden, at the time was the ranking Democrat on the committee and, as Bloomberg News reported, was slow to embrace making that move for fear of alienating the Russians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, that statement was completely true, well, except for the fact that he wasn’t the chairman of the committee and he worried more about the Russians’ feelings than those of the Poles. Other than those two minor points, he was right. Of course, those two points were the only points in the statement. <\/p>\n

I’m sure that the fact he was hired as a foreign policy expert, and the fact that not allowing Poland into NATO is yet another thing in regards to our foreign policy that he was wrong about, among the long list of things Biden has been wrong about for decades, it has nothing to do with why we get no respect from the Euros, in general, and the Russians, in particular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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