Biden unlikely to turn back in Iraq
Former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel says Biden knows Iraq "as well or better than just about anyone."
Biden: "I wasn’t ready to give up on Iraq"
In 2009, soon after taking office, US President Barack Obama said, "Joe will do Iraq."
Joe, of course, was then Vice President Joe Biden. In his 2017 book "Promise Me, Dad," Biden, who has traveled to Iraq over 20 times as chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and then as vice president, describes Iraq as "arguably the most frustrating issue of my forty-year career in foreign relations," adding that efforts to promote good governance there have been "time-consuming, draining, and ultimately nearly impossible."
But Biden never gave up on Iraq then, and he is unlikely to do so as president.
