Posted on 04/08/2014 1:29:51 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
John Kerry Defends His Diplomatic Efforts: ‘I May Fail – I Don’t Care’
By Ali Weinberg Apr 8, 2014 4:03pm
Appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State John Kerry defiantly defended his diplomatic efforts, saying that while ambitious, they were better than doing nothing.
While the purpose of Tuesday’s hearing was to pick through the State Department’s budget, it was Kerry’s record that came under scrutiny as his old colleagues on the committee accused him of taking on too many responsibilities with too few results.
“I think you’re about to hit the trifecta,” Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., told Kerry, naming three of the most complicated issues Kerry took on: the humanitarian crisis in Syria, the Iranian nuclear program and the Middle East peace talks.
Kerry said McCain gave a “premature judgment about the failure of everything,” and noted, on Middle East talks, that the Israelis and Palestinians were still at the negotiating table.
“It’s stopped. It is stopped. Recognize reality,” McCain curtly told his former colleague.
Kerry invited McCain and other critics to lay blame at his feet.
“Sure, we may fail. And you want to dump it on me? I may fail. I don’t care. It’s worth doing. It’s worth the effort,” he said.
Earlier in the hearing, Kerry rejected a claim by Sen. Jim Risch that American foreign policy was “spinning out of control” and listed some of what he said were clear successes around the world.
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ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!
All three of Kerry’s phony PHs were self-inflicted, especially the first one. And he used those PHs to spend just 4 and one-half months in Vietnam—getting an early out.
LOL!!!! BRILLIANT!
I hate them all...not only are they traitors..but also incredibly stupid.
The only small bit of justice with Kerry and Fonda is
that they are both getting uglier day by day as they get older...
...and yes, although I am a Christian, I have a great feeling of Schadenfreude when I see them age ungracefully!
Me too, right after pissing on Hanoi Jane's grave.
5.56mm
Thanks!
The hubris of this entire administration is enough to make me physically ill!!!
He was against failure before he was for it.
Time to pull in that lower lip, sonny.
‘’I may fail — I don’t care’’ is worse than Hillary’s ‘’What difference does it make?’’ comment because, even though both statements express the same sentiment, Hillary was not actively serving as Secretary of State when she made her comment, but John Kerry is currently in office and supposed to at least have the decency to pretend he still cares about American foreign policy.
John Kerry’s excuse that ‘’at least I tried’’ is only possible in politics, where no one is expected to do their jobs. In every other type of work, people MUST try: doctors MUST treat patients; bakers MUST bake bread. And if they do their jobs badly, they’re fired. Saying, ‘’at least I tried’’ goes without saying in such cases, since if doctors and bakers sat around doing nothing they’d be fired immediately. But in politics, of course, it’s okay to sit around doing nothing without fear of being fired; so John Kerry thinks he deserves praise for trying, no matter how badly he’s failed.
What! a failure admitting failure
Always was a failure. A failure now and will always be a failure. America begs for genuine leadership. The Russians gotta be laughing their asses off at us.
Try W Ketchup, the conservative alternative to Heinz.
The only thing I can say that might possibly be in Kerry’s defense is that he is playing with an incredibly weak hand.
Im surprised that kerry has not managed to add a few million dollars in aid to “palestime”..during this recent series of useless talks
After years of relentless criticism of this nation’s diplomatic policy going back to the Vietnam war, SOS kerry finally gets his chance to show the world how it should be done.
No he didnt use them to get out- he was TOSSED OUT after only 3 months (not 4.5) by his commanding officers because they deemed him “UNFIT FOR COMMAND”
Which means he was such a dumbass they did not want to put him in charge of people, and if you look at some @nd Lt.’s thats an awful low bar!
They figured he would get his own men killed (or they would frag him)
So the next time I find something on fire and the only liquid around is a bucket of gasoline, I'll toss it on the fire. After all, that would be "better than doing nothing."
McCain is the LAST person who should be lecturing Kerry.
He failed long ago... when he voted against nuclear civil defense and now he is in charge of peace...
Can you say disaster, not just fail.
I have Unfit for Command, and have done lots of research on Kerry's tour in Vietnam. In the Appendix of the book, they have a chronology of Kerry's naval career and his involvement in the VVAW.
On November 17, 1968, Kerry was ordered to and arrived at Coastal Squadron One, Coastal Division 14 in Cam Ranh Bay.
On March 17, 1969, at Kerry's own request, he departs An Thoi for the United States citing the three PH regulation. He was the only Swiftee in the history of Coastal Division 11 to do so.
As a former naval officer who served a year in Vietnam, July 1967 to July 1968, I have nothing but contempt for Kerry. He compiled a phony war record that was signed off on by uninformed superiors. He chronicled and wrote his own citations. When he signed on to Swift boats, he thought that it was going to be relatively safe off the coast of Vietnam. When the mission changed and the boats were sent into the rivers to assist the PBRs, the mission became much more dangerous. Kerry wanted out and his superiors were happy to oblige him. He initiated the request because he was scared sh#tless, not because he was TOSSED OUT.
After Kerry's third PH on March 13, it was Tom Wright, another PCF commander at An Thoi, that approached Kerry with several other swiftees, and let him know that it might be best for everyone that Kerry leave. Yes, they wanted him out, but Kerry wanted out. He was aware of the 3PH rule, which is why he manufactured the three he got. He served four months in-country.
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