Posted on 09/09/2013 8:18:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Making the case for intervention in Syria to a war-weary American public, Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that the strike will be "unbelievably small" a comment that has already earned him relentless mocking in its immediate aftermath. "Were not going to war. We will not have people at risk in that way," Kerry said during a press conference in London with UK Foreign Secretary William Hague, according to a transcript released by the State Department.
"We will be able to hold Bashar Assad accountable without engaging in troops on the ground or any other prolonged kind of effort in a very limited, very targeted, very short-term effort that degrades his capacity to deliver chemical weapons without assuming responsibility for Syrias civil war.
"That is exactly what were talking about doing unbelievably small, limited kind of effort."
Kerry's comments are a microcosm of the poor job the Obama administration has done trying to explain the rationale for intervention. On one hand, they realize they are dealing with a "war-weary" public skeptical of engaging in another Middle East conflict.
On the other hand, Kerry has made repeated comments casting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as the greatest villain of the 21st century, in response to an alleged chemical-weapons attack against his own people on Aug. 21. The U.S. says the attack killed 1,429 people, including 426 children.
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look for Kerry to resign today... he can’t recover from this
>”Anybody notice that his chin has gotten shorter?”<
It’s an Optical Illusion. It appears shorter because his Nose keeps getting longer.
John “Pinocchio” Kerry, Lying Tax Evader and the Captain of the only Swift Boat in Cambodia when Nixon was President.
John McCain @SenJohnMcCain 42m
Kerry says #Syria strike would be “unbelievably small” - that is unbelievably unhelpful
I understand there are secret negotiations with one of Assad’s security staff to pants him when Assad makes a public appearance.
Probably not as accurately as Ka D'Argo
That’s it.
These guys are intentionally trying to destroy the US from within and Kerry’s comments are an intentional effort to diminish the prestige of the US world wide.
NOBODY could be that stupid or inept and you can’t drink the amount of whiskey needed to make such an insane and irresponsible comment and still stand up.
U must be kidding. He thinks that position is owed him. He will have to be fired or else he’ll never leave.
He knows a LOT about “degrading a military”!! He DEGRADED OURS during the Viet Nam LIES he told.
This is worse than Vietnam.
Are they sending anthony Weiner over to syria???? Is that their point.
John Genghis Khan Kerry is willing to murder children
and have others beheaded, eaten and taken into slavery.
Is it not enuf he was behind ignoring BOTH the 911
and Boston Atrocities??
Best headline is on Daily Caller: “Itsy, Bitsy, Teeny, Weeny Strike Against Assad’s Regimey”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/#ixzz2eQGR6Kul
The only thing that’s unbelievably small is John Kerry’s brain.
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