Biden is stuck between Iraq and a hard place. But there is a way out.

With foreign policy on the agenda again, Joe Biden’s Iraq War vote could make the difference in a close race.

There were 2.5 times more questions during the 2008 Democrat primary debates than there were in 2004. While that number fell slightly in 2012, that had more to do with Obama’s incumbency that anything else. Despite a trend of growth therefore, Democrats have generally avoided foreign policy questions so far this cycle.

However, we are now three weeks away from the Iowa Caucuses, which is effectively running at a four-way tie. Trump’s approach to a trade deal with China, his occasional holidays to North Korea, and his handling of the unfolding situation in Iran has forced comment from Democrat candidates.

Not for the first time then, Biden’s experience — so often purported as a strength — is being picked apart and used against him. This time, because of his 2002 vote for the Iraq War when Biden was one of the 77 Senators who voted to give George Bush the authority to use force in Iraq. Even though it only took him two years to admit that this was a mistake, that mistake is one of the most explicit mark a candidate can now have against their name. Especially for someone who wants to extol their…