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emmaverybo

(8,144 posts)
Wed Jul 24, 2019, 12:53 PM Jul 2019

Biden: Most qualified for "the moment we are in," a perilous moment for America and the globe... [View all]

Many experts have said that we are closer to a nuclear conflict than we ever have been before.
We sit on a powder keg. Russia, North Korea, Iran, China and their relations to other countries, not
only the U.S., present a threat that must be addressed with experience and knowledge.

If we are to get Iran to the table to negotiate or re-negotiate our agreement with them, it will take
expert leadership and a leader Iran can trust. By the time Obama led the Iran agreement negotiations, he had attained a good measure of respect from the international community. He had
stature on the world stage.

I suggest that contrary to the talking point that Biden is out of step, can not lead our party forward, is ill-suited to today’s landscape socially, politically, that he is just the man for our time,
the only candidate who can hit the ground running on foreign policy. repair our alliances, address factors that contribute to migrants’ fleeing Central America, understand the complicated geo-political forces underlying hotspots across the world.

We are tending to neglect foreign policy and relations this election cycle, but Biden is committed to
and fully prepared to work in this vital area, as much an existential matter as is climate change.
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The urgency is well shown in this Common Dreams article:

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/03/09/were-edging-closer-nuclear-war

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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