Posted on 04/22/2014 12:05:15 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Kerry: 'It was easier' in Cold War AFP 2 hours ago
Washington (AFP) - Secretary of State John Kerry attested Tuesday to the massively complex challenges Washington faces in Ukraine, Russia, Iran and the Middle East, declaring "it was easier" during the Cold War.
In a candid moment during a State Department speech, the top US diplomat said changing global power dynamics made a quaint memory of the early East-West stalemate, when American children would "crouch under our desks at school and practice" safety steps for a possible nuclear attack.
"During the Cold War... it was easier than it is today -- simpler is maybe a way to put it," Kerry told aid and development experts.
"The choices were less varied, less complicated, more stark, more clear: Communism, democracy, West, East, the Iron Curtain."
He said "multiple emerging powers," unleashed forces like radical Islam, and "too many failed states" have dramatically complicated the landscape, requiring a form of diplomatic precision that was not absolutely necessary decades ago.
In the post-war 1950s and 1960s, Kerry said, "we could make really bad decisions and still win, because we were pretty much the sole dominant economic and military power around.
"It's not true any more."
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And may I ask who is disarming us?
And the Russians are watching.
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” - Napoleon Bonaparte.
Obama was not even a twinkle in his commie daddy’s eye for this first half of the cold war and was in school during the rest. Came into the world, born and bred a communist, studied it in school, practiced it in adult professional life and still does. I can remember when we used to fight the damned communist bastards in real shooting wars. Been there, done that. Now we have an America-hating commie bastard squatting in the White House.
Easier because he didn’t have to do it.
Of course it was easier, you leftist lady-child! The GROWN UPS were in charge and you had NOTHING to do with ANY of it that was helpful. Besides, I thought you liberal, intellectual, ‘jennjisss’ pronouncing
a-holes had contempt for ‘easy’ because you’re all so in tuned to ‘NUANCES’. WORTHLESS. JUST WORTHLESS.
Really?
How f-ing easy was it in 1961?
1953?
1944?
Imbecile.
Yeah, we were just big bullies! We didn’t need Maggie Thatcher or the Pope!
Now that we have taken a position of weakness, then things are hard.....
What a maroon!
Proof of that is the CPUSA has not even bothered to run a candidate since Zero descended from heaven. He is everything they’ve dreamed of.
“Whaaaaaaa!....My job is so hard! Those guys like Dulles and Baker and Acheson and Kissinger and Rusk were a bunch of amateurs. I’ll bet they didn’t even speak French and they didn’t have great hair! Whaaaaaa!!!”
Pathetic.
“Dude, you were on the other side in the Cold War! “
Thank you. That he was.
It was easy for HIM.
Lurch would NEVER have been appointed Sec State during the Cold War. And neither would the Hilderbeast.
That’s how I see it.
We were born a Christian nation buy utilization of the Judeo Christian code of ethics.
This guy wants to instill the Koran. To heck with our culture.
Send this guy back to Kenya on a one way ticket.
That's because back then Republican Presidents were doing the heavy lifting. Today, no one is doing any lifting.
Just why doesn’t this neutered putrid incompetent just go away? His inane comments are no longer entertaining...merely annoying. What a clueless moron.
John Kerry, in the Cold War, you gave Aid and Comfort to the North Vietnamese. Col. Bui Tin said Tet was the end for them, but they hung on and won because of traitors like you and Jane Fonda.And when Democrats' Boland Amendment made it illegal to fight Commie daughter-raper Daniel Ortega, you went down with Heap-O'-Dung Harkin and shook El Commandante's hand.
Here's his stepdaughter's deposition describing his serial abuse beginning when she was eleven (requires Adobe Acrobat to open pdf): Testimony of Zoilamérica Narváez against her adoptive father Daniel Ortega Saavedra
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