NEW YORK -- Joe Biden on Tuesday delivered a forceful and detailed critique of the Trump administration's escalation toward Iran as he sought at every turn to highlight his own commander-in-chief credentials and to evoke the stature of a president.The former vice president, speaking from Pier 59
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump, as the the prime minister of Greece and his wife arrive at the White House in Washington on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020.
Hours after he spoke, Iran launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles against United States military and coalition forces in Iraq, according to U.S. military officials. In Biden’s telling, the chaos America now confronts — “heightened threats, chants of ‘death to America’ once more echoing across the Middle East,” with Iran and its allies “vowing revenge” — was stoked by Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal that was negotiated under the Obama administration.
“At precisely the moment when we should be rallying our allies to stand beside us and hold the line against threats, Donald Trump’s shortsighted, ‘America First’ dogmatism has come home to roost,” Biden said. He went on to add, “We are alone now. We’re alone, and we’ll have to bear the cost of Donald Trump’s folly.”
Biden, who has faced renewed scrutiny of his foreign policy record and especially his Iraq War vote, also appeared to misspeak at times, referring to Iran when he apparently intended to say Iraq, and he appeared to say that the current perilous situation was “unavoidable,” when excerpts from the speech circulated before the appearance used the word “avoidable.”
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