"On Joe Biden’s role in the debate over Afghanistan:
"I think it's hard to believe this sudden media inflation of the wisdom of Joe Biden is accidental.
"It's clear that there is a debate inside the White House.You got McChrystal, a man of incredible authority and stature, who says you’ve got to go this way with a heavy troop involvement, and you've got Petraeus, the man who saved Iraq, saying the same, saying otherwise we're going to lose.
"And the administration obviously is resisting, and it has to have a champion of the other side, and it's the hapless vice president. So some way you have to inflate his status and to make it at least somebody that will be [seen as] a credible alternative.
"I'm not sure that the Biden plan is a plan. It's an idea, and the administration obviously, in its leaks, is tending towards the Biden idea. But it needs to have some stature on that side, and that's why I'm little bit skeptical about the [sudden] discovery of the vast storage of military wisdom in a guy [who], if you remember, opposed the Gulf War and opposed the surge and supported the Iraq war, which he now says was one of the great mistakes of American history — 0 for 3."
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