Originally Posted by
Mechta
Biden was said to be joking when he said this. If he wasn't, he may prefer not to have an RAF pilot flying him:
Joe Biden: "I'm Irish"
On the flip side, he beat even Ronald Reagan to public support of the UK over the Falklands. He put a resolution down in the Senate calling on the administration to openly state it would support the UK even as Jeanne Kirkpatrick was busily attempting to secure a position of neutrality. Biden was unaware that Cap Weinberger was privately running his own foreign policy, supplying fuel and offering the USS
Eisenhower on loan to the RN, of course...