It's flexible, with an enlarged wrist bone which allows it to grasp and manoeuvre the bamboo with a dexterity and precision that a monkey would be proud of.
But, as she herself remarked about her predecessor, Gerhard Schroder, who tried to buy himself time with a similar manoeuvre back in 2004, the two jobs belong together.
In the speech at the National Defence University in Washington, Mr. Biden said the group's momentum in Iraq had been halted, and its ability to massive manoeuvre had been degraded.
Investigators say after rebooting their first attempt to land, the pilots carried out a manoeuvre that caused the plane to lose speed and going into a dive.