Joe Biden is a foreign policy wonk whose credentials sets him apart from the rest of the field

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8. As somewhat of a "foreign policy wonk" myself,

including 18 years of actual work experience experience in senior legal positions with the USG (State), as well as with international organizations in Geneva, I have found Biden to be a FP lightweight who simply parrots the conventional "wisdom."

Among FP professionals, I am not alone in this.

He may have a slight edge on some of the primary candidates simply because he was Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for two years. But he has generally shown poor judgment wrt to major foreign policy decisions, and not only IMO.

So I prefer to support someone who, despite her comparative lack of FP credentials, is open to truly learning what a complex world we live in today. That world will NEVER revert to what it was, if Joe is nostalgic for the status quo ante and if that is what people are hoping for. We lost tremendous credibility with the Iraq War debacle and that reminded people of some of our earlier debacles. Some credibility was regained during the Obama Era, especially with Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, but that is now in tatters. Even a return to the credibility of that era is likely impossible. It's certainly improbable.

In many ways, the world has chosen to move on without us since the Criminally Deranged Thug took office. That world has been made intolerably worse because of his policies.