Word: inderfurth
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...Biden's greatest strength is his foreign policy expertise - an area where McCain has consistently beaten Obama in polls. "My thoughts are along the lines of the line in the Jerry McGuire film - 'You complete me," says Karl Inderfurth, an international relations expert at George Washington University. "Obama needed a helping hand from his vice presidential pick on the foreign policy front, the recent Russia-Georgia crisis underscores this. And that's what he will...
...switch over, briefly, to the Taliban, which once tried to make him its U.N. ambassador, a post he declined. But Karzai, an Islamic moderate, soon turned against the Taliban's stringencies, especially its brutal restrictions on women, and returned to Pakistan. Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth, a friend of Karzai's, says that after the murder of his father, Karzai approached Washington with plans for leading resistance to the Taliban. "It did seem like a mission impossible," says Inderfurth, "because he'd be putting himself at great risk...
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