Thursday, February 26, 2009

My Brother, Prophesy.

Last year, during Presidential election, Joe Biden made the prediction that within the first six months of his presidency will be tested in the area of foreign policy.

There are any number of hot spots in foreign policy that would/could be considered as a test:

(A) Pressuring Kyrgyzstan to shut down the U.S. air base in Manas, an absolutely crucial NATO conduit into Afghanistan.

(b) Announcing the formation of a "rapid reaction force" with six former Soviet republics, a regional Russian-led strike force meant to reassert Russian hegemony in the Muslim belt north of Afghanistan.

(c) Planning to establish a Black Sea naval base in Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia, conquered by Moscow last summer.

(d) Declaring Russia's intention to deploy offensive Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad if Poland and the Czech Republic go ahead with plans to station an American (anti-Iranian) missile defense system.



Those are just a few thing in which he is going to be tested on.

Will he pass or fail?

If the two recent democratic presidents are a clue, he will definitely fail the tests

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