[wadeintothem]

I have requested from the author a follow-up article. I hope to get more info from the CPT.

[cvq3842]

Thanks. I will have to bookmark this.

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[Eva]

I don't have time to post this, but it is from Frontpage Magazine.

Kerry and the Communists

We have been wondering how the major media would handle Senator John Kerry’s cordial relations with the communist Sandinistas who once ruled Nicaragua. Now we have our answer. The March 21st Washington Post ran a story by Glenn Kessler declaring that Kerry was merely “engaging” with them. The whole theme of the article was that Kerry’s foreign policy was one of “engagement.” This story has got to go down in history as a classic in terms of whitewashing a candidate’s record.

Kerry adamantly opposed President Reagan’s policy of preventing a communist takeover of Central America. Evidence showed that communist Cuba and the then-Soviet Union were coordinating a massive assault on the Western hemisphere. Reagan had set them back with the liberation of Grenada and the overthrow of a communist gang there. He was also supporting a resistance movement, known as the Contras, opposing the communist Sandinistas who had taken control of Nicaragua.

In an article in the American Spectator, entitled, “The Bolshevik in Kerry,” George Neumayr wrote, “Kerry’s limousine liberation theology led him into one of the most embarrassing moments of his early Senate career—his disastrous Neville Chamberlain-style diplomacy with Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega. Shortly after becoming a Senator, Kerry took off for Nicaragua with Tom Harkin on a free-lancing fact-finding tour, the purpose of which was to stymie congressional support for the Contras by ‘finding’ that the Sandinistas weren't such bad guys after all.”

Kerry said at the time, “We believe this is a wonderful opening for a peaceful settlement without having to militarize the region. The real issue is: Is this administration going to overthrow the government of the Sandinistas no matter what they do?” Neumayr notes that Reagan Secretary of State George Shultz “was so flabbergasted by Kerry’s shilling for Ortega that he denounced Kerry publicly for ‘dealing with the communists’ and letting himself be ‘used.’”

But that’s not how Glenn Kessler of the Post saw it. “Over the years,” he wrote, “Kerry has pushed engagement with the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, the communists in Vietnam and the mullahs who run Iran.” Kessler wrote that, “Early in his Senate career, in 1985, he riled the Reagan administration by traveling to Nicaragua to meet with the Sandinista government, saying that ‘we've got to create a climate of trust.’” Kessler said that Kerry had “questioned U.S. support for the contras in Nicaragua in the 1980s.”

That’s how Kessler sanitized a Kerry policy of appeasing the communists in Nicaragua. If we had followed Kerry’s advice, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and perhaps even Mexico might be communist today. But no thanks to Kerry, pressure from the Contras forced the Sandinistas to hold free elections, which they lost. As a result, the communist insurgency in El Salvador collapsed and assumed the role of a political opposition party. On March 21, that party, led by veteran communist Schafik Handal, lost an election for the presidency. He got about 34 percent of the vote, compared to 58 percent for the conservative. Reagan was right, Kerry was wrong.

[End Times Sentinel]

Kerry's conduct certainly was unbecoming of a former officer or anyone who cared about his fellow countrymen committed to battle against an enemy.

 

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure John Kerry was never in the military.  I'd certainly have heard of it by now if he was...

Owl_Eagle
”Guns Before Butter.”

Kerry's conduct certainly was unbecoming of a former officer or anyone who cared about his fellow countrymen committed to battle against an enemy.

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure John Kerry was never in the military.  I'd certainly have heard of it by now if he was...

[seenenuf]

What a find. I love this web page - my lib friends will really hate it.

[MEG33]

John Kerry article by a Vietnam vet.FYI

[GailA]

ping

[pabianice]

http://www.kerrycountry.org

[Bob]

From the article:

On various occasions during 1970 the questionable and harmful behavior of a former junior navy officer...

If I'm not mistaken, J F'n kerry hadn't yet become a former officer in 1970. I can't recall the year that he resigned his commission but I'm quite certain that it was well after 1970.