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Kerry Slams ‘Trigger Happy’ Critics: U.S. Should Be ‘Proud’ of Obama’s Diplomatic Successes
Mediaite ^ | 20 Jul 2014 | Evan McMurry

Posted on 07/20/2014 6:21:02 PM PDT by mandaladon

Juggling foreign policy hotspots from Israel to Iran to Ukraine, Secretary of State John Kerry strongly defended the Obama administration’s foreign policy to Meet the Press host David Gregory, arguing that the administration had successfully used diplomacy to further peace whereas certain previous administration (a-HEM) were “trigger happy” to the point of starting wars.

“What [Obama] faces is a problem with a bunch of critics who want to jump to conclusions without looking at the facts,” Kerry said. “The facts could not be more clear. The United States of America has never been more engaged, helping to lead in more places than we are now.”

Kerry listed multiple diplomatic successes, from a quieter North Korea to the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons to the rollback of Iran’s nuclear program.

“One thing I’ve seen for certain: people aren’t worrying around the United States, sitting around wanted the US to leave; people are afraid the United States might leave,” Kerry said. “The fact is that in every fundamental issue of conflict today, the United States is in the center, leading, and trying to find an effort to make peace where peace is very difficult.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhoforeignpolicy; kerry; obama; soskerry
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To: mandaladon

What a crock!


21 posted on 07/20/2014 6:46:25 PM PDT by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: rockinqsranch

Diplomatic successes.

Name one...


22 posted on 07/20/2014 6:48:36 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: mandaladon

There are none.


23 posted on 07/20/2014 6:49:55 PM PDT by ZULU (Go REDSKINS!!! Impeach Obama!!!)
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To: mandaladon

Who is Jean Francois Kerrie calling Xigger happy?


24 posted on 07/20/2014 6:52:17 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (Have a wonderful day!)
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To: mandaladon

Diplomatic successes .... like Benghazi, Iraq, Egypt, etc. ?


25 posted on 07/20/2014 6:54:09 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Could Warren Buffet's oil trains be considered mobile Jihadist weapons of mass distruction?)
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To: mandaladon

The Onion, right???


26 posted on 07/20/2014 6:56:22 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: mandaladon

I’ll be proud when he and Holder are in prison


27 posted on 07/20/2014 7:04:39 PM PDT by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
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To: cripplecreek



28 posted on 07/20/2014 7:08:54 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: mandaladon

This is like Baghdad Bob claiming success in the midst of a rout.


29 posted on 07/20/2014 7:11:23 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: cripplecreek

Facts? We got plenty of facts. They’re based on reality and differ significantly from the skewed and biased facts propagated by the 0 administration.


30 posted on 07/20/2014 7:11:40 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Olog-hai
The administration sounds like a bunch of kooks even to liberals these days.

"Tell bold lies" seems to be their main (and only) strategy.

31 posted on 07/20/2014 7:21:28 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: mandaladon
The American people ought to be proud in terms of what this president has done in terms of peaceful diplomatic engagement...

Really? I, too, would like a concrete example of a positive outcome from his diplomatic efforts.

32 posted on 07/20/2014 7:30:24 PM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy...I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: mandaladon

This from a man who represents a government that has militarized just about every bureaucracy under its control.


33 posted on 07/20/2014 7:35:43 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: mandaladon

What is he talking about? This Obama admin have been more trigger happy than Bush admin. In fact, so much so that Obama admin is doing a lot of things unilaterally instead of with a large coalition


34 posted on 07/20/2014 7:45:20 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: mandaladon

If fast tracking the Middle East & Russia toward Armageddon is a foreign policy success then what does Kerry call a failure? How many nations that we once had some control and handle on are now in anarchy? Libya? Egypt? Iraq? Afghanistan? and the list goes on. How many of our long time reliable alliances has this administrations arrogance alienated us from?


35 posted on 07/20/2014 7:59:28 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: cripplecreek

OdumBO got bin Laden, but, that was Bush’s fault.


36 posted on 07/20/2014 8:03:15 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: cva66snipe

skerry should resign and return to one of his homes and take care of his alcoholic wife.


37 posted on 07/20/2014 8:03:21 PM PDT by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp)
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To: RightGeek

This POS needs to be glued to a sheep on the border in one of his photo op costumes.


39 posted on 07/20/2014 8:08:01 PM PDT by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could kata - Romeo company)
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To: mandaladon

“What is he talking about?”

Beats the hell out of me! None of these people are living in reality!


40 posted on 07/20/2014 8:11:40 PM PDT by kcvl
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