taming the corporate media beast biden doesn't stand a chance. clinton's secretary of state will be vicky nuland originally appeared at the american conservative 




joe biden is reportedly being considered for secretary of state in a clinton administration: 




joe biden is at the top of the internal short list hillary clinton<u+2019>s transition team is preparing for her pick to be secretary of state, a source familiar with the planning tells politico. 




if biden is on such a list, i doubt he is at the top of it, and my guess is that he wouldn<u+2019>t be the nominee in any case. there are other likely choices, including victoria nuland, that would be a better fit with clinton and would be even more likely to share her foreign policy priorities. kelley vlahos reported earlier this year on nuland<u+2019>s record: 




where will victoria nuland be after january? nuland is one of hillary clinton<u+2019>s prot<u+00e9>g<u+00e9>s at the state department, and she is also greatly admired by hardline republicans. this suggests she would be easily approved by congress as secretary of state or maybe even national-security adviser<u+2014>which in turn suggests that her foreign-policy views deserve a closer look. 




if nuland can be considered a clinton protege, biden is more of a rival. during the first obama term, biden and clinton were frequently on opposing sides of internal foreign policy debates, and in his 2015 announcement that he wouldn<u+2019>t run for president biden offered what i took to be a rebuke of clinton<u+2019>s more aggressive foreign policy positioning: 




we have to accept the fact that we can<u+2019>t solve all of the world<u+2019>s problems. we can<u+2019>t solve many of them alone. 




the argument that we just have to do something when bad people do bad things isn<u+2019>t good enough. it<u+2019>s not a good enough reason for american intervention and to put our sons and daughters<u+2019> lives on the line, put them at risk. 




probably their most significant disagreement was over intervention in libya: clinton was a major supporter, and biden saw no compelling reason for the u.s. to intervene. biden has a fairly hawkish record over the last twenty years, but even he couldn<u+2019>t see why the u.s. should get involved there. as recently as june, he was publicly claiming vindication for opposing an intervention that clinton touts as <u+201c>smart power at its best.<u+201d> i don<u+2019>t see why she would want biden as her secretary of state, and i definitely don<u+2019>t see why he would want to serve in her administration.
biden doesn't stand a chance. clinton's secretary of state will be vicky nuland - daniel larison
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