Originally published on the CGS blog on December 4, 2007.
Senator Joe Biden is hungry. How do I know? He told me so in an e-mail today. In fact, he’s so hungry he says he will “eat Rudy Giuliani alive.” Here is part of the text of Sen. Biden’s e-mail:
I can’t wait to debate Rudy Giuliani.
Over the weekend, Rudy Giuliani attacked the Biden plan for a political solution in Iraq, “They’re saying, ‘We will divide the country.’ (The Iraqi government) has to decide to divide the country. We’re trying to create stability over there.”
I will eat Rudy Giuliani alive at a debate.
The former mayor never misses an opportunity to display how little he knows about foreign policy.My plan is to give regions in Iraq more control over their daily lives. It’s a way for states to share power with a central government and achieve a political solution to the chaos there and it was endorsed by a bipartisan majority of 75 Senators, both Republican and Democrat. We’ve already seen it play out — where local authorities have been given more control over their affairs, violence has gone down. Meanwhile, the Bush administration’s attempt to create a strong central government is still not working — for all the headlines the surge has created, we’re no closer to a political solution in Baghdad than we were when the surge began months ago.
Folks, we’ve seen how dangerous it is to elect a president who doesn’t understand how the world works. The last thing we need in the White House is four years of George W. Giuliani, or George W. Romney. Notice we haven’t heard a word about their plans to reach a political solution in Iraq.
Maybe Biden is on to something here; after all, the electorate does seem to ‘hunger’ for a change in direction of our nation’s current foreign policy. But eating your opponent ‘alive’? Wow.
