Joe Biden: “it is true the Delaware which touches New Jersey is owned by Delaware, but I am from Delaware. I would be proud to be…”

“it is true the Delaware which touches New Jersey is owned by Delaware, but I am from Delaware. I would be proud to be from New Jersey, but I am prouder to be from Delaware. Mr. President, I understand we are going to go to the Kyl amendment very shortly and I cosponsor and agree with the Kyl amendment. I think the manager supports the Kyl amendment, too. But while we wait for Senator Kyl to make his opening statement in support of his amendment, I would like to reiterate a point I made yesterday with Senator Smith, in the few minutes while we are waiting for Senator Kyl to come to the floor. Yesterday there was a good deal of talk here about whether or not this expansion of NATO was good, bad or indifferent. The distinguished Senator from New York, Senator Moynihan, the distinguished Senator from Virginia, Senator Warner and others, were taking issue with the expansion of NATO. I referenced why I thought the Poles thought this was in their interest because the comments were basically made that the Poles--Senator Smith of New Hampshire said we support the Poles anyway. I made the point that that kind of promise had been made to Poland before. In 1939, France was considered to have Europe's strongest army. It had built the massive defensive fortification called the Maginot Line which was widely thought to be impregnable. Hitler's generals warned against an attack on France.…”