Joseph Biden actually said...

The approach I suggest does not fall easily into traditional categories of foreign policy; that is, either realism or idealism.

We have got the tools. It is a question of whether we have the political will, with our European allies, to use them.

We have simply too much at stake in the world today to walk away from it, even if we could.

International leadership does not involve a choice between sending in the 101st Airborne or doing nothing.