Joseph Biden has slammed the Bush administration's foreign policy, saying it "failed" to address issues like the emergence of India and China as "great powers".
WASHINGTON: Democratic vice presidential nominee Joseph Biden has slammed the Bush administration's foreign policy, saying it "failed" to address issues like the emergence of India and China as "great powers".
The Delaware Democrat, Chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also termed as an "abysmal failure" Washington's policies in Afghanistan and Pakistan, ruing that those responsible for the 9/11 attacks in US have regrouped in mountains between the two countries and plotting new attacks.
Senator Biden, known for his sharp acumen in foreign and national security issues, hammered away at Republican Presidential nominee John McCain's endorsement of the "failed policies" of the administration.
"For last seven years, the administration has failed to face the biggest forces shaping this century, the emergence of Russia, China and India as great powers; the spread of lethal weapons; and resurgence of fundamentalism in Afghanistan and Pakistan," said Obama's running mate.
"... our country is less secure and more isolated than it has been at any time in recent history. The Bush foreign policy has dug us into a very deep hole, with very few friends to help us climb out," Biden said at the Democrats' Denver Convention last night.
But Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama, he said, will usher in change on the domestic and foreign policy fronts and will again establish America in the position of a world leader.
Accusing McCain of being complicit in "this catastrophic foreign policy," he maintained that America cannot afford four more years of "this failure".
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