This morning, a number of Israeli newspapers are quoting Sen. Biden as saying that Israel will just have to live with a nuclearized Iran. Here’s what Sen. Biden is quoted as saying:

“Israel will have to reconcile itself with the nuclearization of Iran,” Army Radio quoted Biden as telling the unnamed officials. “It’s doubtful if the economic sanctions will be effective, and I am against opening an additional military and diplomatic front.”

If these reports are accurate, then Sen. Biden has just told Israel to accept a death penalty. It’s obvious that Sen. Biden doesn’t take Iran’s threats to blow Israel off the map seriously.

It won’t take long before Obama-Biden will be backtracking from Sen. Biden’s statement. They should be embarrassed. We started the weekend worried that Sen. Obama didn’t have the national security/foreign policy credibility. Serious people thought that Sen. Biden would bring that credibility to the ticket. (I wasn’t one of them but serious people thought that’s what he’d bring to the table.)

That myth was just shattered.

Don’t think that Jewish voters, whose support was already tepid, won’t notice. Don’t think that they won’t be repulsed by Sen. Biden’s statement. Don’t think that that won’t cripple the Obama-Biden ticket in Florida. It certainly will. Initially, Florida’s Jewish community had their doubts about Sen. Obama. It was thought that Sen. Biden would shore up Sen. Obama’s credibility.

This report destroys that.

This dispels the myth, too, that Sen. Biden is a great foreign policy guru. He isn’t. He’s a foreign policy disaster. Let’s remember his presumptuous plan to tell the sovereign Iraqi government to split into three independent countries. This was a stupid plan right from the start. It hadn’t dawned on Sen. Biden that an independent Kurdistan would quickly become rich and would destabilize the region.

His plan also would’ve given Anbar Province to AQI and forced southern Iraq into a strong allegiance with Iran.

Prior to Sen. Biden’s most recent gaffe, Democrats planned on telling voters that they couldn’t risk voting for someone as inexperienced as Gov. Palin. That argument just disappeared. When the American people hear about this, I suspect that they won’t put a high priority on experience. I suspect that they’ll put a higher priority on judgment.

Technorati Tags: Israel, Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Joe Biden, National Security, Jewish Vote, Florida, Election 2008

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

1. “It’s doubtful if the economic sanctions will be effective, and I am against opening an additional military and diplomatic front.”

   Interesting use of the pronoun “I” there.

   Do that mean its already been decided he’s Obama’s Cheney, or is it just the usual Joe Biden bravado.

   Either way, its a bit worrisome if that tells us where the mind set is when Obama sets down and looks Ahmedinajab in the eye.

   Nuclear weapons? Hey, no problem bro.

   Comment by T A Gray — September 1, 2008 @ 8:41 am

2. Looks like history repeating itself: the VP as the puppetmaster and the President as the puppet. /sarc

   Comment by Anneke — September 1, 2008 @ 9:58 am