[Cincinatus' Wife]

As early as prep school, John Kerry showed signs that he shared his father's suspicions about America's cold war foreign policy. In a debate at St. Paul's in the late '50s, he argued that the United States should establish relations with Red China. During his junior year at Yale, he won a speech prize for an oration warning, "It is the specter of Western Imperialism that causes more fear among Africans and Asians than communism, and thus it is self-defeating." And, when he was tapped to deliver a graduation speech in 1966, he used the occasion to condemn U.S. involvement in Vietnam, intoning, "What was an excess of isolationism has become an excess of interventionism."

[Mentos]

Red diaper baby

[reluctantwarrior]

If he pulls it off in November we will be kissing the ass of every dictator and rolling over on international agreements. Isn't life grand, I think I'll send more money to W and the RNC.

[thegreatbeast]

"He further claims that "Third world Marxist movements were autonomous national movements" -- outside Moscow's orbit. "Richard Kerry, whose own father committed suicide, was not a very effusive parent. When his twelve-year-old son John lay quarantined with scarlet fever at his Swiss boarding school, Richard Kerry didn't make the trip from Berlin to visit him. But there was at least one subject that fostered easy conversation between the two: foreign policy. "It allowed them to break through an emotional wall," says Brinkley. "They talked about foreign policy the way most fathers and sons talk about football." Well into his Senate career, John Kerry would phone his father to ask his opinion about international issues ranging from arms control to Central America. Watching the conversations, Winer says, "I saw two people talking about policy very seriously with unexpressed affection." What happy horsesh*t! Just another indictment of CBS as being a brothel for the Democrats.

[Cincinatus]

So, foreign policy wimpery, cowardice and appeasement is in his blood, eh? Excellent piece -- bump!

[lambo]

This is really good, despite being from CBS. Admin Mod, any chance this could go up on the Front Page? It needs a wider readership than it's going to get otherwise.

[onyx]

This is gold. Please read thoroughly.

John Forbes Kerry must not win election to the presidency or we are doomed and I mean doomed. He is a seriously dangerous man with a seriously dangerous agenda.

BOOKMARKED.

[Finalapproach29er]

just as Americans exaggerate their own goodness, they exaggerate their enemies' badness. The Soviet Union wasn't nearly as imperialistic as American politicians warned, Kerry argues.
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Breathtaking.
Do we need to list the Communist countries?

[gunnedah]

The Lord turned water into wine and the press tries to turn $hit to sugar.

[atomicpossum]

This explains the carnival mirror he saw Viet Nam through, as well...

[windchime]

America's Global Role  by George Soros

[arasina]

Very interesting article. Seems to me that both John Kerry and his father have no sense of or appreciation for America's own history.

[EllaMinnow]

Must-read ping!

[risk]

You are a gem for finding this. No surprises there!

[cyncooper]

Richard Kerry's father, a Czech Jew, fled Europe. The son, by contrast, embraced it. As a law student at Harvard in the late '30s, he read continental philosophers like Kierkegaard and histories about Bismarck and Metternich; he traveled to France, where he took sculpture classes and met his wife.

Plucking out a trivial factoid, it turns out John Kerry's mother is indeed from France.

[hgro]

Jack "The Flipper" f-ing Kerry runs off at the mouth just like his mentor Bill "The Impeached" Clinton. If nothing else beats The Flipper, his verbosity will.

[sphinx]

The dad sure sounds like a classic State Department case.

[anniegetyourgun]

"While other boys were eating TV dinners in front of the tube, [John] Kerry was discussing George Kennan's doctrine of containment."

Whoa.....that's all I need to hear. It also tells me Kerry has no compassion, and no moral sense outside of the expedient.

[okie01]

Important stuff ping.

Know the father, know the son.

[kayak]

BumPing what could be the most important info we hear this whole election year.

[Lady Jag]

"It is the specter of Western appetite that causes more fear among Africans and Asians