Three reasons come to mind for following a path of not sending the troops overseas every time something bad happens “over there”. The first is the Libertarian view that we should not be spending taxpayers’ money and/or children in events that are not essential to American safety [Not a member of the Libertarian Party, but I think I have paraphrased this issue somewhat correctly.] The second is that our so-called “leadership” in D.C. has bankrupted the country and we cannot afford to engage in every Libya/Syria event that shows up on the radar screen. The third is the idea that American intervention is always evil, and disengaging with the world enables greater domination by Russia and China. Their track records suggest that this is the view of the current Administration (and Kerry). So, he becomes a perfect SecState for the next four years - bunny suit and all.
We’ve got plenty of money, plenty of blood and a whole world to save.
A return to traditional American realism and conservative self interest is long overdue.
More George Washington and Robert Taft and less Woodrow Wilson, FDR, JFK and George W. Bush.
Is he still trying to get us out of Nixon’s war?
Jacoby rather misses the point on Obama’s ‘realism’—he supports and promotes leftist dictators and the Muslim Brotherhood because he considers himself to be united in their cause. Sure, he can tolerate social democracies because he is sympathetic to their labor-socialist parties and leanings, but it is the true statists that he understands and backs.
I have photo’s of him showing up for a visit at the Regional Embassy Office -Al Hiallh, Iraq back in 2006 — he wanted dirt and chaos reports to shower the public that the war in Iraq was going badly and to smear President Bush...he didn’t get it...
I was standing at the door, my guys (Blackwater) was doing his transfer up to and during the meeting, brought him in and I was standing there with my BW shirt on with the Bear claw symbol on it - reached out my hand to shake it - and he walks right by with his nose in the air — walks across the lobby area to a 5 ft E-5 SGT from Hawaii - grabs her around the shoulder - and spins around so the following press can snap photo’s of him “supporting the troops”...
He was fake then - and he’s a fake now...
I have the photo’s taken of that incident...
A much more prudent sentiment from John Quincy Adams:
And now, friends and countrymen, if the wise and learned philosophers of the elder world, the first observers of nutation and aberration, the discoverers of maddening ether and invisible planets, the inventors of Congreve rockets and Shrapnel shells, should find their hearts disposed to enquire what has America done for the benefit of mankind? Let our answer be this: America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government. America, in the assembly of nations, since her admission among them, has invariably, though often fruitlessly, held forth to them the hand of honest friendship, of equal freedom, of generous reciprocity. She has uniformly spoken among them, though often to heedless and often to disdainful ears, the language of equal liberty, of equal justice, and of equal rights. She has, in the lapse of nearly half a century, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations while asserting and maintaining her own. She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart. She has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests of that Aceldama the European world, will be contests of inveterate power, and emerging right. Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force.... She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit....
John Kerry is a coward.
A combination of Quisling, Chamberlain, Benedict Arnold, and Elmer Fudd all rolled in to one.
Never worked a day in his life. has no idea what it is like to be an average American or how the Average American survives working 40 hrs a week.
Kerry is just one of the many Leftists who engaged in obsequious ass-kissing of Bashar the Reformer.
Hillary noted that Assad was a “different leader than his father” (yeah, he’s killed more Syrians). And don’t forget Nan Pelosi who hilariously claimed “The road to peace runs through Damascus”.
For Obama this is all about two things:
1) Virtual guaranteed confirmation (since he is a member in the chummy Senate Club) with no nasty, icky questions about Benghazi being raised.
2) Extending the middle finger and a big “F.U!” to the Swiftboat Vets and their supporters (today’s Democrat Party is all about knee-in-the-groin revenge...even if it’s decades later)
Thanks, that makes me feel a whole lot better knowing my son enlisted in the corps serving under commiebunnie.