Sure he made a last ditch visit to influence the Lebanese election, a probably futile effort to keep half a billion's worth of US security assistance out of Hezbollah's hands. But trifles like that shouldn't be allowed to interfere with long established friendships:

Hezbollah is now accusing the U.S. of trying to influence the vote in favor of the pro-freedom, Western-backed March 14 Alliance. They claim that the visits by Clinton and now Biden raised "strong suspicion and amounted to a clear and detailed interference in Lebanon's affairs."... But the terrorist group will not likely remain angry at Biden. Back in 2007, Biden voted against a Senate amendment that would name Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) - Hezbollah's benefactor - as a terrorist organization.

In 1983, then-Senator Biden and other Senate Democrats demanded under the War Powers Act... that President Reagan announce when the Marine peacekeeping force would leave Lebanon. Despite a warning from Marine Corps Commandant Gen. P.X. Kelley that a partisan debate over timelines would encourage attacks on our troops, Democrats still voted to end the deployment. Once they knew that the American resolve was exhausted, Hezbollah simply had to kill a few Marines... Less than a month after the Senate vote, the Marine headquarters in Beirut was attacked.

In an interview with the New Republic in 1986, Biden bragged about personally stopping covert operations by threatening to "go public."

And of course, there was that time when he held up Bolton's confirmation, because Bolton had the temerity to suggest that Syria was pursuing nukes. If I was part of the Iran-Syria-Hezbollah axis, I couldn't stay mad at him either:

I had a bitter struggle with several IC agencies -- news of which was leaked to the press -- concerning my testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee about the Syrian program. Then Sen. Joe Biden made the Syria testimony an issue in my 2005 confirmation battle to become ambassador to the United Nations, alleging that I had tried to hype concern about Syria's nuclear intentions. (In fact, my testimony, in both its classified and unclassified versions, was far more anodyne than the facts warranted.

The Serbians that Biden demonized before dropping in to hamfistedly try repairing relations in the background of another vapid "reset" quote - they seem a lot less forgiving. Which is a shame, because if they got to know him they'd realize that he's a veritable fount of erudition.

Almost difficult to believe that Obama's getting sidetracked by this genius. At least he never makes big gaffes, like blabbering publicly about national security secrets. And you can be sure of that, because he said so himself.

References and previously after the jump...