Joe Biden goes after Trump for his lack of foreign policy….

• The former vice president is making the case for being an international statesman by touting his experience in the Obama administration to point out differences in his and Trump’s foreign policy records. WashPost notes Biden is “one of the few Democratic candidates who supports keeping some U.S. troops in Syria.”

It’s like dealing not with a commander in chief, but a whiner in chief. It’s bizarre.”

— Biden to WashPost on Trump’s conduct

The big picture: In the interview published Tuesday, Biden doubled down on his criticism of Trump in the Medium post that the death of Baghdadi happened “despite his ineptitude as Commander-in-Chief.”

• Biden said “there’s no coherence” on what would happen next regarding the U.S. and Syria, given Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from the country.
• He said national security officials were treating him “like a baby” and that Trump’s allies “essentially tricked him into leaving some troops in Syria by telling him he could control the oil there.”
• The former vice president noted that the Obama administration always stressed that U.S. troops were not in Iraq for the country’s oil because that would be a “recruiting tool” for terrorists….

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