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The Missile Defense Spectator
Joe Biden’s War
The Vice President’s long opposition to missile defense meets the reality of North Korea.
(Page 4 of 4)
A threat? From North Korea? But how could this be? What happened to those diplomatic efforts then-Senator Biden said would defuse North Korea? If the VP wants to take some non-sequestered travel, why isn’t he in Pyongyang hanging out with Kim Jong-un instead of Dennis Rodman?
When one cuts to the chase here, what’s at play is the liberal mindset on national security issues. There is nothing new with Biden – or the now highly predictable results of his lack of common sense about the threats to the United States and how to deal with them.
Biden’s record as a senator included his support for the nuclear freeze, cutting off funding for the Vietnam War (launching the infamous killing fields of Cambodia and the murderous overtaking of South Vietnam by the North), opposing the first Gulf War in 1991 and so on… and so on… and so on.
Now, as the sitting Vice President of the United States, the irony is that the Biden chickens are coming home to roost. North Korea is in fact threatening America with nuclear missiles, and now the U.S. government has to scramble to reverse the damage done to American missile defense done by Biden’s work.
Will there be a war with North Korea? Will Californians and others on the West Coast suddenly find themselves watching their televisions and computers in horrified fashion as a North Korean missile flies towards them, making of Hollywood or San Francisco the new Israel? Their citizens nervously scanning the sky for incoming?
We will see.
But if in fact this scenario plays itself out, it’s safe to say that whatever else follows will have a name:
Biden’s War.
Photo: UPI (“Vice President Joe Biden Visits the USS Ronald Reagan”; May 16, 2009)
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Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.
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TLP| 3.21.13 @ 7:58AM
Jeffrey, Jeffrey, Jeffrey. You give Plugs Kinnock way too much credit. "He was wrong on this. He was wrong on that. Yadda yadda yadda."
I think that his Perfect Score on being Wrong, is something that needs to be Celebrated.
He, and his Buddies - Chris and Teddy - Stabbed the South Vietnamese IN THE BACK, when they withdrew the Military Aid that they had PROMISED them, so they could fight the Communists on their own.
He was wrong on The Soviet Union. (if not an outright Fan)
He was AGAINST every New Weapons System that was ever put forth over the last 40 Years. Every Ship. Every Plane. Every Submarine.
He was against the F-16s and the Abrhams Tanks that he and his Halfrican Boss just gave The Muslim Brotherhood FOR FREE.
He was against every Nuclear Misslie Innovation. He's against any Modernization of our deteriorating Missile Force. He was against the F-111, the B2 and the B1, as well as the F-117. He was against putting the Medium Range Pershing II Missiles in Western Europe as a Countermeasure to the Soviet Missiles in the Warsaw Pact Countries.
He was against arming the Contras. Against going into Greneda. Against taking out Zit Face Noriega, in Panama. Against Bombing Khaddafi's House, and Against throwing Saddam Hussein outta Kuwait.
He actually WAS For the 2nd Gulf War, until he was against it. Like the Billionaire Rich Widow Chaser, over at State.
And, he was against STAR WARS. Something that he will undoubtably touch himself over, because now he needs it.
TLP| 3.21.13 @ 8:00AM
He's like Purp, minus the Gerbil Hiking Trail in his Lower Intestinal Tract.
Frekki| 3.21.13 @ 8:17AM
Darn it TLP, you made me spit coffee all over my computer.
TLP| 3.21.13 @ 8:59AM
That should've been "Not enough Credit".
I'm trying to write, while making breakfasts, lunches, and getting kids on the bus.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.21.13 @ 9:02AM
Don’t worry. Should Joe ever succumb to the weakness in his brain, he has his son, known as “Beau”, who has been Delaware’s Attorney General since 2007.
It was Beau who ran for his office claiming that the Attorney General is largely responsible for increases in violent crime, and attributed his victory to the support of the city of Wilmington (since his victory, the homicide and shootings in the city of Wilmington has increased and is one of the most violent cities in the country).
It was Beau who decided in 2010 not to run for the Senate seat vacated by his father because Mike Castle was running on the Republican ticket and nobody could ever beat Mike Castle in an election in Delaware.
It is comforting to see a family tradition of almost always being wrong is being continued.
TLP| 3.21.13 @ 9:15AM
What about the Thai Restaurants, down there?
Is it safe to go to the Thai Restaurants?
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease! I need to know if it's safe to take my family to a Thai Restaurant in Wilmington, Delaware!
And, should I brush up on my Indian Accent, or is that just stupid?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.21.13 @ 9:33AM
There have been no shootings on the block with Wilmington's first Thai Restaurant.
Thus far, no Dunkin Donuts or 7-11 have been robbed by anyone with a "slight Indian accent" in Wilmington; though it is said that the Pakistani staff at the new franchise on Lancaster Avenue may bust a cap in yo' ass if you say anything but Ah Salaam Aleikem with said accent.
TLP| 3.21.13 @ 1:11PM
Could I have Ah Salaami Sandwich, with American Cheese, Lettuce, and Deli Mustard, please?
I always get one of those because Aleikam so much.
And, where's your bathroom?
Al Adab| 3.21.13 @ 9:36AM
Nice Thai restaurants here. Maybe I'll wear my new shirt to one.
TLP| 3.21.13 @ 10:15AM
So much for that nice White Shirt.
Al Adab| 3.21.13 @ 12:06PM
Skip the fish sauce.
SUBVET| 3.21.13 @ 10:01AM
Tim......... only if you take your food taster.
TLP| 3.21.13 @ 10:18AM
I would, but he lives all the way over in New Mexico, with my namesake. One of them doesn't have any balls, and for the life of me, I can never remember which one it is.
Pecos Pete| 3.21.13 @ 11:08AM
Ol' Tim. Careful there, Tim, don't upset your taster.
Al Adab| 3.21.13 @ 12:08PM
Pete, TLP:
I once had the wonderful experience of having enchiladas at the Indra Regent hotel in Bangkok...with the fish sauce. Not exactly Tex-Mex...more like Thai-Mex. I do not recommend it.
The Whataburger in Ubon grilled the burgers in fish sauce.
TLP| 3.21.13 @ 1:14PM
Obviously, getting a shirt in the mailbox has a deleterious effect on your Comments.
I blame myself.
Al Adab| 3.21.13 @ 1:53PM
I understand and shall endeavor to rebuild my reputation, such as it was. Inshallah.
Occam's Tool| 3.21.13 @ 7:49PM
Burgers in fish sauce! That explained the taste in Los Lunas. Where were the chiles?
Anthony| 3.21.13 @ 1:08PM
Speaking of the lit'le devil, where are all our resident Village Idiots today? They are totally AWOL.
Is today some big government handout day I'm missing?
TLP| 3.21.13 @ 1:16PM
I heard that they're all in Wilton, trying to buy Beer.
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AuH2O Girl| 3.21.13 @ 9:53AM
I propose moving DC to California immediately.
loulou| 3.21.13 @ 10:00AM
Biden is nothing but a buffoon. His son is a buffoon.
His wife as well--going around calling herself a physician when all she has is a Ed.D. A doctor of Ed is a stupid teacher on steroids.
Anthony| 3.21.13 @ 12:25PM
I like it!! An Ed.D. is a stupid teacher on steroids, you go girl!!!
TLP| 3.21.13 @ 1:18PM
Those who can't.
Teach.
Makes sense.
Occam's Tool| 3.21.13 @ 7:50PM
A lot of EdDs fashion themselves as "Doctor" off the campus.
Schools of education aren't much.
Von Mises Jr| 3.21.13 @ 8:03AM
Liberal logic is giving Mexican Drug Gangs 2,500 AK-47's through "Fast and Furious" and then sending Brian Terry out to interdict with bean bags.
Our "Age of Reason" socialist philosophers apparently gave RPG's and surface-to-air missiles to Al Qaeda and refused to put barbed wire or re-enforce our Embassy in Benghazi.
They send troops into the public domain in Afcrapistan telling our soldiers to "win hearts and minds" and don’t' shoot back if you are shot at if there is possible collateral damage.
At the same time they want to drone the TEA Party.
But the good news for the Clinton's is that if they still have access to the Loral technology they passed to China and they can still profit by selling it to North Korea (if they don't already have it from the Chicoms). The real tragedy would be if the NORKS aim at Hollywierd or San Francisco and miss and blow up some decent people in Utah or Montana.
CJW| 3.21.13 @ 8:20AM
Von and TLP
Excellent comments. You can substitute the words Dem Senators, except for maybe Lieberman and Henry Jackson, for Biden.
Von Mises Jr| 3.21.13 @ 8:34AM
Screw Lieberman. He was the final vote for ObamaCare three years ago almost to the day. I had the distinct pleasure of being kicked out of his Office for insisting on where in the Constitution Old Joe found this Enumerated Power.
The left trashed his wife until he trashed the country. He is liberal trash.
TLP| 3.21.13 @ 9:07AM
Lieberman is a PUKE.
Ya notice his Wardrobe got a whole lot Fancier after he got to the Senate. Apparently, Senators get a lot more chances at Insider Trading and Gifts in Envelopes slid across Tabletops, than their House counterparts.
He's Pro Israel. Period. I don't know his record as far as Vietnam, Pershing IIs in Western Europe, Weapons Systems, or SDI. I wouldn't be surprised if he was against all of those things. HE'S A LIB!
You want him?
You can have him.
He's No Better than any of the other Leftist Scumbags.
loulou| 3.21.13 @ 9:58AM
Agree.
Ian Cognito | 3.21.13 @ 8:19AM
Progressives, and Biden, don't care about defense. They need the money provided to defense to buy more votes. I'm no lawyer but bribery is a crime when a voter tries to purchase the vote of an elected politician. Is the reverse not true - when a politician tries to buy the vote of a citizen? The scale of the crimes is the only difference. Democrats have gone all in using this criminal enterprise to rig elections along with the other crimes they perpetrate at the voting booths. Democrats need the money spent in agencies for which they have little use to expand programs that subsidize their supporters - RE: buy their votes. Why this is not called what it is Bribery is another reason Republicans lose the votes available to them - white christian males. The WCMs are the direct target of affirmative action programs. They see no difference between the parties since neither will stand to represent them and restore their constitutional rights - stolen by AA policies. These are the 50% who do not vote. Conservative repoublicans could win in landslides never seen if the would only stand up for WCMs and restore their rights. Segregation only lasted 60 years. The same anniversary for AA is nigh. It's time to end those policies. That will simultaneously end Democrat's ability to buy votes.
TLP| 3.21.13 @ 1:22PM
You spelled "Cognative Dissonance" wrong.
TLP| 3.21.13 @ 1:22PM
Other than that, nice comment.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.21.13 @ 9:15AM
The real reason that Biden opposed SDI and other missile defense systems is that he has his own preferred system. He describes it as a large double barreled shotgun:
"If you hear a noise coming out of North Korea that concerns you, you stick both barrels off the West Coast and Blam!Blam!. No more problem."
Minuteman78| 3.22.13 @ 8:19AM
That's excellent!
Al Adab| 3.21.13 @ 9:35AM
Whenever the ideology of The Left meets reality they simply change their tune. All the while of course they reject any such concept as Truth or reality finding every situation to require a relativistic view and an "evolution" in thinking. Sorry folks, there really are absolutes and they will bite us if we refuse to recognize and understand them.
Anthony| 3.21.13 @ 9:36AM
Biteme has been one of the most consistantly wrong pols in American history, and this line is long indeed!
Put Biteme's senate record up against a chimp and give the chimp darts to vote yea or nea on any senate vote and chances are the chimp would have a better voting record than this moron.
But I suppose to be Christian about the fool, the man has been semi brain-dead for decades, unfortunately, he's still walking upright.
CJW| 3.21.13 @ 10:30AM
Anthony
Biteme graduated 91 of 96 from Syracuse Law. He was reprimanded for plagiarizing a law review article to write a term paper. He should have been bounced out.
He plagiarized Neil Kinnock's biography for a campaign speech in 1988.
He hired a con law prof to" teach " him con law when he was the Judiciary Com chairman in 1987 to question the great Judge Bork.
During the Justice Thomas hearings, some of Thomas's teachers, nuns, came to testify and he tried to embarass them with his snarky smile by saying since they are nuns they would be nice to all their students.
I am sure others can add their favorite Biden stories.
He is beyond just stupid, he is crazy.
Anthony| 3.21.13 @ 12:38PM
How the hell this moron got into Syracuse Law is beyond me. He probably lied about being a masterdebater, or, he applied as a foreign exchange student, like Obozo.
His buddy Chris Dudd of CT could only get into the Univ of Louisville back in the '70s. (No knock on U of L) Hell Dudd didn't even know where Louisville was.
Don't forget Biteme's famous put down of a witness in a senate hearing; "that decision is made by somebody with a higher paygrade than you".
Unfortunately for America, folks with a lower paygrade made this moron Vice President of the U.S.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.21.13 @ 5:26PM
Ironically, Biden made those comments to Scott Ritter, who, at the time, had just resigned as an UNSCOM weapons inspector after Saddam kicked the team out of Iraq, presumably to keep them from detecting his violations of the ceasefire agreement following the 1991 Gulf War.
Ritter later flip flopped on his earlier claims, and during the lead up to Operation Iraqi Freedom, was a vocal spokesman for the proposition the Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction.
For those interested in where he is now, Mr. Ritter is currently a guest of the State of Pennsylvania at SCI Laurel Highlands, where he is serving up to 5 ½ years for masturbating on a webcam for an undercover police officer who told him she (really a he) was a 15 year old girl.
Given what has occurred in Ritter’s life since that paygrade exchange, when he gets out on parole, I imagine he should apply for a job on Biden’s staff. That would seem to be a task at a paygrade for which he is currently well-suited, given his recent experience.
CJW| 3.21.13 @ 8:30PM
Albert
Too bad Ritter was not a congressman like Wiener or a senator like Menendez or a pres like Bubba. He would have been a star in the Dem party.
Interesting he is at Somerset, about one hour east of Pgh. They have a museum at Shanksville, ten minutes off the Somerset exit of the Turnpike, for the Flight 93 that crashed there thanks to the bravery of the passengers.
Occam's Tool| 3.21.13 @ 7:53PM
Lowest 1/6 of his class at University of Delaware, as well.
Anthony, my dear, dear man and 2nd Favorite attorney in the whole world:
You must face the fact that not only are you a genius by normal comparison; by Syracuse Law standards you are Michaelangelo and Einstein wrapped into one.
Minuteman78| 3.22.13 @ 8:20AM
Some people are worthless, some are useless. Biden's both.
Cpm| 3.21.13 @ 2:02PM
If only we had split Iraq into three parts when we had the chance like Joe suggested.
SUBVET| 3.21.13 @ 10:06AM
Ole Soros can sure pick-em.............
Who Knows?| 3.21.13 @ 11:25AM
Illegal immigrants are to immigration what shoplifters are to shopping.
passed on via Mark Steyn from some Canadian commentator
markenoff| 3.21.13 @ 11:49AM
Democrats wrong on a defense issue is news?
TLP| 3.21.13 @ 1:26PM
Democrats are the nicest, most well meaning people I know.
And, you spelled "Tissue" wrong.
Jim Adcox| 3.21.13 @ 12:37PM
Biden's "war" is against reality and sanity. His mushroom-clouded mind is its own zip code, that is, there is zip going on as he speaks in an unintelligble code.
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