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Monday, August 25th, 2008 at 6:07pm

Joe Biden’s Foreign Policy “Experience”

Experience isn’t always a good thing, especially if your “experience” consists mostly of a string of poor decisions and misjudgments. As Amir Taheri notes in today’s New York Post, Sen. Joe Biden’s foreign policy experience is not something he should be bragging about. In fact, Sen. Biden has been wrong on almost every major national security issue that he’s weighed in on during his nearly four decades in the United States Senate. Taheri explains:

* In 1979, he shared Carter’s starry-eyed belief that the fall of the shah in Iran and the advent of the ayatollahs represented progress for human rights. Throughout the hostage crisis, as US diplomats were daily paraded blindfolded in front of television…

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