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...central command chief. "They've got to live up to their alliance responsibilities." (Of the 43,250 troops currently in Afghanistan under NATO command, the U.S. has contributed some 15,000, and has another 16,000 in the country under separate command to root out al-Qaeda.) Joe Biden, Democratic chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has put the point starkly. "This was not a war of choice," he said this month, drawing an implied distinction between Afghanistan and Iraq. "It was a war of necessity. Our allies have as much at stake...
...Bush Administration's shift in U.S. troop strength echoes what many Democrats have been calling for since the Iraq war began. "We're paying a terrible price for diverting our forces and resources to Iraq from Afghanistan," says Senator Joseph Biden, the Delaware Democrat and chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. And it could get worse: if the Taliban insurgency prevails, Zinni and others fear that Pakistan, Afghanistan's nuclear-armed neighbor, could descend into chaos and NATO itself could collapse...
Senator Joseph Biden, who observed the elections in Lahore as part of a U.S. delegation, said the results make it clear that U.S. policy in the region should "move from personality to the people." But behind the scenes, U.S. officials are encouraging the victorious parties to work with Musharraf, still their favorite personality. A coalition among Musharraf and Sharif (whom he ousted in a 1999 coup) and Bhutto's widower Asif Ali Zardari is a nice idea, but it may be too late. Zardari and Sharif have publicly asked Musharraf to resign. They have the support of Pakistanis, still angry...
...Rice is proposing the creation of a Civilian Response Corps. Similar to the military reserves, the new program would comprise doctors, lawyers, engineers, agricultural experts, police officers and public administrators, led by a team of diplomats, that could deploy with a military unit with 48 hours notice. Senators Joseph Biden of Delaware and Richard Lugar of Indiana originated the idea in Congress in 2003, but some lawmakers are wondering why, five years into the war in Iraq and seven years since the U.S. intervened in Afghanistan, it has taken so long to get these resources out of the gate...
...first votes in 2006 to elect a Congress that would change course in Iraq and make progress on issues like health care. The yawning chasm between what was promised in that campaign and what the Democratic Congress has actually delivered makes everyone with seniority in Washington automatically suspect. Joseph Biden and Christopher Dodd probably have socks that have spent more time in the Senate than has Obama, and look what good their years of experience did for them...