After completing his trip back east, that is to the Middle East and specifically Pakistan, Joe Biden had a number of recommendations for future involvement in Pakistan. He witnessed the results of Pakistan's deomcratically held elections, and believes that Pakistan is moving in the right direction. His suggestions are: triple non-military monetary donations for a decade, help the country's democracy by increasing its annual assistance by a billion dollars, maintain the legitimacy of the military aid we currently send over, and finally take into account Pakistan's concerns, not only ours. As Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden's ideas will carry significant political weight and it will be interesting to see how his recommendations pan out.
In addition, Biden has maintained his support for an improved GI bill that, like the one for WWII vets, offers improved educational benefits.
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Biden seems to always be involved in some sort of foreign policy activity; Biden's experience, coupled with his travels to the middle east, could make him a potential vice-presidential candidate for Senator Obama. Though Biden was alone among the candidates in his desire to partition Iraq, his foreign policy qualifications would not be in doubt should Obama select him as his running mate.
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