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August 22, 2008 - 10:44 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2008-08-23 17:51:01

Sen. Biden has been dead, flat-out wrong in just about every foreign policy matter, including Iraq, which is not a failure. The only people who continue to categorize Iraq as a failure are people who made up their minds years ago and keep changing the goalposts in order to make “the facts” fit their judgment. The metrics on the battlefield and political progress in Iraq are all positive. Perfect. No, not a chance. But moving very positively in the right direction.

How are Obama and Biden going to hold back the savages from Russia and Iran when we cut out the funding for anti-ballistic missile defense? Don’t you dopes understand that the huge payoff for Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran is an Obama victory in November? The big prize is a retreating United States that can no longer stop the Mullahs’ mad designs.

Those three powers are DESPERATE to get missile defense off the map. Once that is done, they can then move on to international blackmail and, in the case of Iran, the nukes actually hurtling towards target rich environments.

So, the moment of decision in the United States has arrived. A solidly socialist ticket (but they call themselves “progressives”)and a referendum about the Left in the United States of America. We are the only country on the planet now where socialism has not been discredited. We are either going to reject in this election, or if the people accept it they will get a four year lesson about it. And then they will have to then reject it and the long process of unwinding this mistake will proceed. And maybe some of the damage will never be undone, particularly if it costs the lives of millions of human beings.