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Posted on 04/23/2004 11:12:48 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Ramsey Clark, George Soros, Marc Rich and the PLA for starters?
I think he is an "agent of influence" for the former Soviet bloc. He is such a reactionary liberal; I think he is a bought-and-paid-for Commie.
CBS News: Kerry's World: Father Knows Best***"Americans," he writes, "are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white." They celebrate their own form of government and denigrate all others, making them guilty of what he calls "ethnocentric accommodation -- everyone ought to be like us." As a result, America has committed the "fatal error" of "propagating democracy" and fallen prey to "the siren's song of promoting human rights," falsely assuming that our values and institutions are a good fit in the Third World. And, 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. "Seeing the Soviet Union as the aggressor in every instance, and the U.S. as only reacting defensively, relieves an American observer from the need to see any parallel between our use of military power in distant parts of the world, and the Soviet use of military power outside the Soviet Union," he writes. He further claims that "Third world Marxist movements were autonomous national movements" -- outside Moscow's orbit. The book culminates in a plea for a hardheaded, realist foreign policy that removes any pretense of U.S. moral superiority.
Despite its blunt arguments, The Star-Spangled Mirror received little attention. Foreign Affairs greeted it with a 90-word summation in its review section. But the work of Richard Kerry, who passed away in 2000, will soon experience posthumous reconsideration. It won't be because of the renewed relevance of his arguments (although his book does read like a contemporary brief against neoconservatism). It will be because his son is a leading candidate to run U.S. foreign policy. ***
Sure much of it was puff .. but a lot of people didn't know about this part of Kerry's life
By printing this article .. it's now it's wide open for discussion
How eager is the Times to get the word out on Kerry, the Saturday edition, the lowest circulation? All of the most incriminating statements have been verified by other, but less well known, sources. This way they can act like this is all old news. They have good reason to fear Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry.
Oh great! So we'd be a better Nation and would be appreciated more in the world if we just "assume" that the 3rd world is unworthy of freedom and incapable of of handling it if they had it?
The arrogance of elitism, is absolutely astounding.
I contend that the entire world would benefit from the wholesale adoption of the US Constitution and rigorous application of it's original intentions (less slavery, of course).
Like he!! he is!!
JFK, in some ways is honestly an idiotic buffoon!
Der Slickmeister is a graduated Rhodes scholar and knew and knows exactly what he was and is doing!
Don't ever compare the two for Der Slickmeister is far more intelligent and capable in his devious anti-American ways than John Kerry could even dream of being.
More??? ...Please see...: Seadog Bytes at StrangeCosmos.com
-The Prince of Tides- Bush ads, Kerry ads, the Tides Foundation, and so much more--
-John Kerry- some selected, informative links...--
I sure hope the Bush campaign is holding this issue in reserve for use in commercials.
The phrase "polishing a turd" comes to mind.
Oh, and how the hell does someone -forget- being at a meeting where assassinations are being plotted? I mean, how can one -possibly- forget that? What the hell else was he doing then, that would make something like that forgettable?
Exactly!
John Kerry should be saying, "it's certainly not something a person could forget. They were supposedly talking about assassinating senators. I'm sure that every person that attended remembers it. I have no recollection of that, I wasn't there."
The problem for Kerry is, that presupposes that other people that attended those few meetings would have accurate memories that could place Kerry at them. So Kerry plays dumb and it lends a false credence to other people having poor recollection ability.
That in itself -- poor recall -- is a sign of incompetence. Flip flop Kerry has nowhere to turn without looking incompetent because he is incompetent. How ironic is it that he is so readily identified as an incompetent liar -- always getting caught in his lies.
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