Terror-obsessed Bush ignored rise of India, China, says Biden

“At the heart of this failure is an obsession with the ‘war on terrorism’ that ignores larger forces shaping the world and the lives of Americans in this new century: The emergence of China, India, Russia and a united Europe; The spread of lethal weapons and dangerous diseases; Uncertain supplies of energy, food and water;… A rapidly warming planet; The challenge to freedom from radical fundamentalism.”

Instead of focusing on these forces, Biden, the Democratic Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee charged that Bush “has fixated on a small number of radical groups that hate America, turning them into a ten-foot tall existential monster that dictates every move we make.”