Posted on 12/22/2012 11:54:14 PM PST by Kaslin
This column was co-authored by Bob Morrison
Sen. John Kerry has a long and dubious record in foreign policy.
In the 1970's, he testified against his fellow Vietnam War veterans before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He charged that they were violating the Geneva Conventions every day in Vietnam. Some POWs were outraged at Kerry's disloyal statements. They said they had been tortured by their Communist captors trying to force them to make such untrue statements.
Worse, Kerry went to Paris in 1971. There, he met with North Vietnamese Communists. We need to see all his notes from those meetings. Any negotiation between a private U.S. citizen and a foreign power is illegal. It violates the Logan Act of 1798. Did Kerry demand of the North Vietnamese Communists that they abide by the Geneva Convention? Or is that only a demand he made of his fellow Americans?
We do not charge Kerry with treason in the statements and actions he engaged in then. Treason consists of giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States. But this country has set a very high bar for conviction for treason--ever since the Burr Treason Trial of 1807. Nonetheless, we do say Kerry's actions and statements then were not those to which America's top diplomat should be linked. What was he thinking?
In the 1980s, Kerry campaigned for the Nuclear Freeze. The Soviet KGB, we now know, was a major funder and promoter of this disastrous idea. The Freezeniks believed that President Carter's promise to send Pershing and Cruise missiles to our NATO allies in Western Europe should be dishonored.
Freezeniks thought that the only thing we should do in response to aggressive Soviet placement of SS-19 and SS-20 Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBMs) in Eastern Europe was to freeze the West into no response. By freezing in terror, we could morally pressure the Soviets into withdrawing their missiles, the naive Freezeniks argued. Harvard's Polish-born Adam Ulam famously punctured this pink balloon: "An' wot will you doo iff they dun't?"
Ulam's common sense response was followed by President Ronald Reagan. Reagan agreed with the democratically elected Socialist President of France, Francois Mitterrand, that NATO would fall apart if we failed to meet this Soviet thrust. The Cruise and Pershing Missiles went forward. And, in good time, Reagan and Mitterand's policy of peace through strength brought the greatest arms reduction treaty in history and it helped bring down the Iron Curtain.
Has John Kerry learned anything from that experience? We need to know.
Then, there is his appalling joke when President George H.W. Bush was elected. He said the Secret Service has instructions, if anything happens to President Bush--"to shoot Dan Quayle."
He got a lot of yuks from the media on that one.
Question 1: Does Sen. Kerry think assassination of the President and Vice President is funny?
Question 2: If John Q. or Jane Q Public makes a joke about murder of the President and Vice President, they get a visit from the Secret Service; why does a United States Senator like Kerry get away with it?
For these and a host of other reasons, John Kerry should be grilled with tough questions. He has been wrong about every major foreign policy issue since 1972. Aren't his failures over four decades something his colleagues should worry about?
Pelosi went to Syria too, eh?
Try to look at the positive side. Maybe Lurch can succeed where Hitlery failed, IE ousting the Indonesian.
I am very concerned. John Kerry is a traitor. He is undeserving of this appointment. But then, everyone in this administration is undeserving.
For whatever reason, all people seem to remember is his testimony about atrocities and throwing away his medals. It was way bigger than any of that.
You said it.
He joined the Navy in 1966 for a 6 year hitch, but his "honorable dishcharge" is in 1978. What did his discharge say in 1972?
John Kerry is an empty suit. He didn’t even get anywhere in life by sleeping with someone. He got someplace in life by sleeping with someone who slept with someone, and she was probably hammered at the time.
Obama unfortunately wants every wrongheaded position Kerry has held in the past. Obama knows Kerry is vain beyond belief and he will push that button whenever he wants.
And how much $$$ did Teresa pay for Kerry’s appointment?
Traitors in empty suits with empty heads is the American norm these days.
"Well Bashar, you could come live in the United States, get a good education, or you could end up in Afghanistan?"
We know libs are empty headed. Even if you shoot them in the head it doesn’t stop them. Proving they are brainless.
Right Gabby?
Aren’t his failures over four decades something his colleagues should worry about?
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Now you know why Obama wants him. Destruction of our way of ife is the Obama goal and nothing helps that mission like a failure running things.
By the way let’s not forget he and John McCain and the MIA issue.
But we also that aside from token Senate-Boy-club sound and fury signifying nothing, he's a shoo-in and will be our next Secretary of State
He truly is inheriting Madame's Rodham’s mess and an agency riddled with her snippy little metrosexual jihadist-loving implants...so how much worse can it get?
At least TerAYza and his exhibitionist daughter with the flat toots might provide some good entertainment at those stuffy embassy receptions
But we also that aside from token Senate-Boy-club sound and fury signifying nothing, he's a shoo-in and will be our next Secretary of State
He truly is inheriting Madame's Rodham’s mess and an agency riddled with her snippy little metrosexual jihadist-loving implants...so how much worse can it get?
At least TerAYza and his exhibitionist daughter with the flat toots might provide some good entertainment at those stuffy embassy receptions
Swift ping
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