Reality Check: Joe Biden’s Foreign Policy Record

Steve Guest, Rapid Response Director for the Republican National Committee, sent out the following in an email:

Joe Biden “has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”

That was former DOD Secretary Bob Gates.

Former DOD Secretary Jim Mattis has warned that Biden “exuded the confidence of a man whose mind was made up, perhaps even indifferent to considering the consequences were he judging the situation incorrectly.”

Biden has consistently advocated for dangerous, destabilizing or implausible foreign policy strategies.

Before the invasion of Iraq, Joe Biden went to Vladimir Putin to ask him to support the invasion in exchange for oil profits if Russia sided with the United States.

On Biden’s actions, The Intercept’s Ryan Grim responded, “It’s at a minimum disqualifying.”

See below for more examples of Biden’s disastrous foreign policy record.

• Biden once pushed for a controversial plan to partition Iraq that the U.S. embassy in Baghdad said would “produce extraordinary suffering and bloodshed .”
• Biden was the Obama Administration’s ” public salesman ” for the flawed Iranian nuclear deal which has not eliminated Iran’s nuclear threat nor curbed its destabilizing behaviors .
• Biden pushed for the Obama Administration’s disastrous Russia “reset ” policy and personally sought to cozy up to Vladimir Putin .
• Biden supported the Obama Administration’s flawed Israel policy and was “particularly harsh ” to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
• Despite the threats posed by China to the United States, Biden has engaged in a dovish approach to China stressing “they’re not competition” and they weren’t going to “eat our lunch.”

As a diplomat on the world stage, Biden has made many misleading and false claims and committed numerous diplomatic gaffes.

• In 2007, Biden claimed he had been fired upon in Iraq and later backtracked saying while he did not have to duck and cover “he was near where a shot landed.”
• In 2008, Biden claimed his helicopter had been “forced down” by Al Qaeda but it was later revealed the helicopter had been forced to land due to snowy conditions.
• Biden publicly said he was unaware of any security issue at the compound in Benghazi and seemed to not know the Administration had been implored to beef up security at the consulate.
• In 2011, Biden told Turkish President Abdullah Gul he didn’t think violence in Syria would become disruptive regionally; By 2014, ISIS controlled territory from Central Syria to the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq.
• Biden had to backtrack after appearing to endorse China’s One Child Policy while on a trip to the country saying, ” your policy has been one which I fully understand “

Hat tip to PR.

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