The Democratic leadership is more capable of winning the War on Terror than the Republican leaders

For the purposes of my arguments, I will be directly comparing Senator John McCain to Senator Joe Biden for the purposes of leading America's foreign policy and the War on Terror. The key to restoring America's respectability in the world is to have a leader that the international community respects. Mr. Biden is a long time member of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, in 1997 becoming a ranking minority member and being declared Chairman for the 110th Congress. To show how the international community respects Biden, in October 2001, Pervez Musharraf, the leader of Pakistan, did not communicate with even President Bush after 9/11, but first spoke to Joe Biden by phone calling Biden himself. While McCain has served in the Senate since only 1986, Biden has served as a Senator of Delaware since 1973, having been the 5th youngest Senator in history to ever take office. McCain has more personal experience, having served in the Navy before and during Vietnam, however, that is no longer considered an important criteria for American politics. The last 3 Presidents have no military experience. Joe Biden has THE political solution to Iraq, not a military solution like the surge. John McCain's troop surge helped to slow the bleeding in Iraq (literally and metaphorically), although he provides no long-term solution to Iraq. McCain's plan consisted of increasing the number of troops in Iraq to quell the violence, hoping that calm can be instilled long enough for the Iraqi Parliament and government to strengthen themselves politically. While the number of deaths have increased and the statistics support the surge, the Iraq Parliament is not the solution for Iraq to exist. In order to address the issue of Iraq, there must be put in place a long-term solution to stop the sectarian violence. While Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi want to save troops, all the Republican leaders want to do is fix Iraq to leave it, without caring how long it will last after the US leaves. Sure, the Parliament could last at least a decade, but the best support to America would be to have an ally in Iraq that will last for a century. Joe Biden's solution, presented in November 2006, proposes to neither withdraw nor stay the course, but to establish a federalist government over Iraq that allows for three separate states of Shiite, Sunni, and Kurd. This would give autonomous power to all three governments while allotting "breathing room" to disarm the bomb that is Iraq. John McCain has yet to propose a solution past the troop surge, taking more of a laissez-faire standpoint. The solution, contrary to critics, is not a hard-partition but a soft-partition. "Slowly but surely, we're building a consensus in the Congress around a way forward in Iraq. That's significant, because it's the only real way to end this war. Everyone agrees that there is no military solution in Iraq, only a political solution. That begs the question: so, what is your political solution? We have an obligation to answer that question and today, leaders from both parties answered with one voice. This may be President Bush's war. But it is America's future. Together, we have to get this right. Today, we are one step closer to doing just that." - Joe Biden Joe Biden is more qualified than any of the Presidential candidates to lead America's rebuilding of Iraq. The Republican candidates focus on statistics and persuasion to convince the American public that Iraq is improving and not a lost cause. While I agree that it is not a lost cause, Iraq is certainly not improving as it should despite the claims of the near-sighted Republican candidates.