When you are vice president of the United States, you can control a lot of things. One thing you cannot control, as Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. discovered Friday morning here, is the weather. Mr. Biden, on a two-day diplomatic mission to Iraq – his first trip to the country since becoming vice president — had intended to get around town a bit, and had hoped to fly by helicopter to a breakfast meeting Friday morning with the top American commander here, General Ray Odierno, and the new ambassador, Christopher Hill. Instead, he was grounded by intense sandstorms — but not before he got a chance to fly.

Nowhere did the NYT remind readers that gasbag Joe Biden once proclaimed that Iraq could not survive as a single nation and must be (contrary to the will of its elected government) be partititioned into three countries.

Biden was wrong about Iraq. Obama was wrong about Iraq. Both are willing to take credit for the success of George. W. Bush.