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 Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2012 1:01 pm Post subject: "John Kerry: ‘Perfect choice’ for whom?" |
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A jerusalem Post Op-ed that nicely melds both SVPT Kerry issues and his tawdry, post-'82 senate record...
| Quote: | John Kerry: ‘Perfect choice’ for whom?
By Abraham Katsman
12/26/2012
Kerry is no Hagelian bigot. But he is a morally-preening, self-righteous mediocrity, unpopular even among his colleagues.
US President Barack Obama’s potential cabinet appointment of Chuck Hagel, a former senator who has, to put it mildly, issues with the State of Israel and America’s “Jewish lobby” (his words), is foundering against appropriate outrage. But the president made an equally important announcement this week: Obama will nominate Sen. John Kerry, his “perfect choice,” to be secretary of state.
Kerry’s nomination will sail thorough confirmation by his fellow senators. And that should alarm America and its allies.
Kerry is no Hagelian bigot. But he is a morally-preening, self-righteous mediocrity, unpopular even among his colleagues. He is prone to making thunderous, categorical pronouncements – and then adopting contrary positions shortly thereafter as the political winds shift.
While that might be overlooked in a career politician, less excusable for a secretary of state is that Kerry has shown unbelievably bad judgment about US policy his entire adult life. He is hardly the man to pursue US diplomatic interests.
If you think the Goldstone Report was unfair, consider this: Kerry first rose to prominence as an anti-Vietnam War spokesman, undermining the American war effort by slandering the US military. In 1971, Kerry declared the entire US chain of military command to be “war criminals.”
He testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about American soldiers he had met who supposedly “had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan. Not isolated incidents, but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command.”
Read that last sentence again. These staggering allegations were investigated and proven to be fabricated.
Kerry also illegally met with Viet Cong representatives, and signed a “People’s Peace Treaty” agreeing to Communist demands.
Kerry has never adequately explained or renounced his comments or activities. Just how will he now project American moral authority and defend American military actions?
Jerusalem Post - cont'd |
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