Kerry Slams ‘Trigger Happy’ Critics: U.S. Should Be ‘Proud’ of Obama’s Diplomatic Successes

Mediaite ^ | 20 Jul 2014 | Evan McMurry

[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.

[mandaladon]

The American people ought to be proud in terms of what this president has done in terms of peaceful diplomatic engagement, rather than quick trigger, deploying troops, starting or engaging in a war of choice.”...................What is he talking about?

[cripplecreek]

What diplomatic successes?

[vaudine]

And those successes would be..........?

vaudine

[mandaladon]

Kerry forgot to mention that the border is secure...according to Reid.

[logi_cal869]

Oh, what a good little campaign worker you are, Johnny...

/s

[cardinal4]

Name one success, Jacques Al-Qerry..

[chiefqc]

Well someone flipped a penny to reid and bought his favor.

[MeshugeMikey]

the mans clearly either utterly demented or he’s been taking speech lessons from that that great scholar and theologianifier Revrunt Al Sharpton...

[tet68]

He’s on a roll, wait till he gets to the part about
the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor...

[FlingWingFlyer]

Hey Hanoi Boi! Bite me!

[ThomasThomas]

They must be speaking of his gift of an Ipod filled with HIS speeches to ? One of those English royalty folks?

That the win? I can think of.

[RightGeek]

[Vendome]

Please tell me more....

Man whore...

[TaMoDee]

No doubt suffering from PTSD after that terrible tour on the “94 Boat” and those days on the beach in front of the O’Club at An Thoi.

[RightGeek]

[faithhopecharity]

He’s talking about using our taxpayer money to shove homosexuality down the throats ( so to speak) of countries all around the world.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[Olog-hai]

The administration sounds like a bunch of kooks even to liberals these days.

[FlJoePa]

If we were as trigger happy as Jacques the Gigolo, one of us would have shot ourselves in the ass and applied for a purple heart by now.

[dforest]

OMG, please tell me this is satire.