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June 02, 2006
John F'n Kerry: Still a Sad, Sad Joke
He is literally living in a different world. First we hear he is still trying to "prove" he didn't lie about his service in Vietnam by hiring professional investigators to comb over his records (probably with the same method deployed by Sam Burger).
To see this has been shadow-box the administration with vagueries and platitudes is something to behold; he swings and misses over and over again.
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) harshly criticized the Bush administration for "disdaining diplomacy" in favor of a confrontational and unilateral foreign policy that has hurt the United States' standing around the world and made it less safe.
READ: HAVE A SUMMIT!
"War is the ultimate failure of diplomacy," Kerry told a gathering of the Pacific Council on International Policy. "Yet our current leadership has arrogantly discarded this basic principle…. All too often they disdained diplomacy as little more than an inconvenient detour on the chosen path to armed conflict."
READ: SCREW CONDI!
The result, he said, was an ill-advised rush to war in Iraq that alienated other governments and diminished sympathy for the U.S. generated by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. America's current isolation, and the presence of thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq, is "playing right into Iranian hands…. The Iranians are delighted," Kerry said.
READ: AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY SHOULD BE SHAPED AROUND HOW MUCH PITY AND SYMPATHY THE "WORLD" (FRANCE) FEELS FOR US; THE FACT THAT OUR TROOPS HAVE IRAN SURROUNDED MEANS NOTHING!
Emphasizing that a nuclear-armed Iran would be "a very serious threat to the U.S. and our allies," Kerry contended that the most conservative estimates are that Tehran is at least five years away from developing atomic weapons.
"There is time for diplomacy to work here," he said, but added that negotiating with Iran is "an uncertain proposition at best."
READ: BUT WE WILL CONTINUE TO TALK AND TALK AND TALK AND TALK UNTIL THEY SURPRISE US WITH A NUCLEAR TEST, THEN WE CAN BLAME BUSH.
Kerry, who voted to give President Bush authorization to use force against Saddam Hussein in 2002, said he would attach an amendment to this summer's defense appropriations bill calling for a total withdrawal of U.S. combat troops by the end of this year. But he acknowledged that the idea would be unpopular. "I know I'm not going to get the majority of my own caucus."
READ: WATCH OUT, FEINGOLD! YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY KOOK IN TOWN!
Posted by Aaron at June 2, 2006 12:12 PM
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Diplomacy is great, when the paries involved have a common interest. As when you buy a car. They want your money and you want their car, so you engage in some diplomacy and everybody is happy. How do you negotiate when they want you dead? Diplomacy requires an optainable middle ground and partners willing and able to deliver what they say they will deliver. No doubt Mr. Kerry could have gotten a deal from Hussein but only a fool would have believed him. In this respect Mr. Kerry would have played his part flawlessly.
Posted by: Brad at June 3, 2006 01:18 AM
Diplomacy is great, when the paries involved have a common interest. As when you buy a car. They want your money and you want their car, so you engage in some diplomacy and everybody is happy. How do you negotiate when they want you dead? Diplomacy requires an optainable middle ground and partners willing and able to deliver what they say they will deliver. No doubt Mr. Kerry could have gotten a deal from Hussein but only a fool would have believed him. In this respect Mr. Kerry would have played his part flawlessly.
Posted by: Brad at June 3, 2006 01:18 AM
EXCELLENT point, Brad. People seem to forget that if someone wants you obliterated, all you really are doing is buying for time with "incentives."
Posted by: aaron at June 3, 2006 01:01 PM
Aaron:
Well done. Your entire post has not a single original thought. You have managed to dig up every possible cliche and talking point, the same ones endlessly spewed in the LIBERAL media and by those you shill for...how about some new spin we haven't already heard a billion times, maybe originating in your own brain...?.
Posted by: Pat Hat at June 5, 2006 03:00 AM
Um, Pat, why don't you tell me the one original thought Kerry offered in that piece and then I might have an original take on it.
Posted by: aaron at June 6, 2006 05:10 AM