This Appeared Here. I wish to thank Alan for allowing me to publish his work. RK
Recently, in the wake of another diplomatic disaster for the Obama regime, Secretary of State John Kerry said, “We are not blind and I don’t think we’re stupid.” He and the President may not think they’re stupid, but the leaders of nations around the world most certainly do.
In a recent Wall Street Journal commentary by Brett Stephens, titled the “Axis of Fantasy vs. Axis of Reality”, he cited the French rejection of the negotiations with the Iranians, saying “the French also understand that the sole reason Iran has a nuclear program is to build a nuclear weapon…This now puts the French at the head of a de facto Axis of Reality, the other prominent members of which are Saudi Arabia and Israel. In this Axis, strategy is not a game of World of Witchcraft conducted via avatars in a virtual reality.”
Stephens said of Kerry’s remark on Meet the Press, “When you’ve reached the ‘don’t call me stupid’ stage of diplomacy, it means the rest of the world has your number.”
The Secretary of State carries out the President’s
foreign policies, but when both are ideologically blind to reality and both
harbor a deep disdain for an American history of global leadership since the
end of World War Two, they are going to initiate and stumble around in ways
that convince other nations to seek leadership elsewhere or to pursue they own
interests without looking to the U.S. for support.
John Kerry has one of the worst records imaginable to be
our Secretary of State. I have always regarded him as a moron with strong
anti-American beliefs. I shudder to think he was the Democratic Party’s
candidate for President in 2004, losing to George W. Bush who thankfully had
previously defeated Al Gore. Two worse candidates for the presidency are hard
to imagine.
Kerry first came to my attention and that of most
Americans when he testified on April 22, 1971 before the Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, claiming that American veterans of the Vietnam War had
committed war crimes that were “not isolated incidents but crimes committed on
a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels.” Kerry
had, at that point, become a spokesman and organizer for the group, Vietnam Veterans
Against the War. Towards that end, he was working closely with people, many of
whom could only be described as revolutionary Communists.
A lot of my generation opposed the Vietnam War in the
belief it was the wrong war in the wrong place, mostly the result of Lyndon
Johnson’s bad judgment. It would cost our nation more than 50,000 lives of
those who were sent into that grinder. We did not see it as an excuse to lie
about their participation, comparing them to barbarian hordes. Kerry said at
the time, “We cannot fight Communism all over the world and I think we should
have learned that lesson by now.” The U.S., however, did not stop resisting
Communism and, in 1991, the Soviet Union would collapse as just one result of
the resolve.
Like most liberals, Kerry has a long record of embracing
the worst dictators of the modern era. As early as May 1970 Kerry met with
North Vietnamese/Viet Cong delegations at the Paris Peace talks to discuss
various proposals, an action even Kerry acknowledged was “on the borderline of
private individuals negotiating, etc.” It was, in fact, conduct prohibited by
the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Now, as Secretary of State he gets to
negotiate for the U.S.; most recently with the Iranians.
In a commentary, “Kerry: Stay
Home”, Prof. Israel Hayom, director of the Begin-Sadat Center for
Strategic Studies and a fellow at the Middle East Forum, wrote “the prism of
the Obama administration on the Middle East and global affairs is fundamentally
flawed. An American policy that supports the Muslim Brotherhood, estranges its
traditional Arab allies such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia, allows Iran to get
closer to the bomb, sees in Turkey’s Erdogan a great friend of the West, and
insists that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be ended in nine months is
dangerous and does more damage than good. Similar complaints about poor U.S.
political judgment are abundantly voiced by America’s friends in Asian and
Eastern European capitols.”
“It is the enemies of the U.S. who rejoice in President
Barack Obama’s foreign policy and who relish in America’s perceived decline in
world affairs.”
A recent example of the fumbling that passes for foreign
policy by the President and the Secretary of State was seen in Obama’s threat
to attack Syria in the wake of its use of poison gas. It is useful to know that
Kerry had met with Syria’s dictator, Bashar Assad, on more than one occasion
and, as a Senator, had worked to undermine the Bush administration’s efforts to
isolate Assad.
In February 2009, days after Obama’s inauguration, Kerry
was sent to Syria to establish a new relationship. He would make five trips
there between 2009 and 2011. After a passionate speech on August 30 advocating
the President’s proposed military action against Syria, Obama decided to seek
congressional approval before taking any action. Kerry looked every bit the
fool he was and is. As it turned out, it was the Russians that saved their
bacon, stepping in to expedite the destruction of the Syrian poison gas
arsenal.
Suffice to say, Kerry and Obama are wrong on virtually
every aspect of foreign relations currently confronting the nation. One cannot
finish this brief review, however, without noting Kerry’s view that “climate
change” is “as dangerous as any of the sort of real crises that we talk about.”
He has been a longtime advocate of “cap-and-trade” programs to reduce so-called
greenhouse gas emissions. There is no “global warming” and the Earth has been a
cooling cycle since around 1998.
This capacity to ignore the facts, whether it is about
the idiotic belief that humans can or should do anything about the climate or
that the Iranians will say anything to continue their pursuit of nuclear
weapons that makes Kerry a very dangerous, world class doofus in charge of
implementing Obama’s equally foolish foreign policies.
Smarter men than the obsequious John Kerry have abandoned
their allies and even started wars. He is in a position to do a great deal of
harm, not just to the U.S., but worldwide.
© Alan Caruba, 2013
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