Posted on 03/02/2015 7:49:32 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE
John Kerry negotiated directly with North Vietnamese communists in Paris before and while Henry Kissinger tried to get us out of Vietnam without destroying the South Vietnamese left behind when our troops abandoned that country.
In that of course, he followed several years of violently and very publicly protesting the Vietnam War after spending only 91 days overseas.
In both of these, he was obviously opposing official US policy, and by meeting with the enemy deliberately and while official negotiations were going on, he was deliberately sabotaging the official US position.
But that was not the only time, nor the first time John Kerry met secretly with foreign leaders against the US White House.
From http://www.neoperspectives.com/kerrysouthamerica.htm
"Kerry was elected to the Senate in 1984 running on a platform of arms reduction and nuclear freeze. He was a bitter opponent of Ronald Reagan calling Reagan's presidency one of "moral darkness" (8). Luckily, Reagan dismissed this talk of a nuclear freeze and built up a strong defense. Kerry voted against nearly all of these defense bills. He attacked Reagan's buildup as wasteful and counterproductive. "[The] biggest defense buildup since World War II has not given us a better defense," Kerry intoned. "Americans feel more threatened by the prospect of war, not less so." (14)
Negotiating from a position of strength, Reagan was able to pass the most comprehensive nuclear weapons reductions ever. Reagan strongly denounced the Soviet Union and dared to call it evil. The Soviet Union, China and Cuba had been actively supporting Communist insurgencies all over the world. Reagan recognized the evils of Communism and worked aggressively to combat the Soviet influence.
Kerry worked against Reagan. The best example is when he and Democratic Senator Tom Harkin traveled to negotiate with Communist Nicaraguan Dictator Daniel Ortega. Ortega, head of the notorious Sandinista party, seized power in a coup in 1979 and quickly consolidated power. Torture, prison, and the execution and imprisonment of thousands of Nicaraguans soon followed. Private property was seized and media, banks and factories nationalized. The Sandistas were especially brutal towards some of the native Indian tribes, liquidating their leadership, imprisoning, and displacing them. In 1984 Ortega held a fraudulent Presidential election and claimed victory, but the opposition boycotted the election and began armed resistance. Before and during his revolution and rule Oretega was supported by Communist Cuba and the Soviet Union. (9) The Sandinistas also began supported the Communist revolution in neighboring El Salvador. From 1980 to 1992 over 75,000 people died in El Salvador.
As this civil war began, the opposition, known as the Contras, were partially funded by the United States, secretly via the CIA. Kerry pronounced himself "alarmed that the Reagan administration is repeating the mistakes we made in Vietnam." (14) For unknown reasons, Kerry and other Democrats in Congress began to rouse support for a bill blocking the CIA funding. The American Spectator reports:
After Kerry met with Ortega, he returned to Washington waving a promise from Ortega that the Communist leader would moderate his policies. "We believe this is a wonderful opening for a peaceful settlement without having to militarize the region," Kerry said. "The real issue is: Is this administration going to overthrow the government of the Sandinistas no matter what they do? This opportunity puts this to the test."
So as a Senator, John Kerry would meet privately and in secret negotiate with our nations' bitterest enemies AGAINST our own White House and Sec of State; but as the Secretary of State under Obola, he demands the House Republicans follow White House commands and dictatorship!
Or, then again, Secretary of State John Kerry may only want to negotiate with Muslim terrorists while nuclear-arming violent Muslim states and newly aggressive Russian states.
Like Hillary Clinton and President Obama, Mr. Kerry makes up the rules of right and wrong as he goes along.
Basically, whatever he wants, at any particular moment, is “right.” Anyone who feels otherwise is “wrong.”
Kerry was awarded Three Purple Hearts in that War, clearly a war hero.
I bet a movie on his experiences in VN at war would sell better than the Sniper did. He was a swift boat commander.
They kept shooting him and he kept getting up.
And he speaks French.
And lie about what he saw.
Gin-Soaked Raisinettes in the movie snack bar?
For the record, “our troops” did not abandon SVN. Our politicians did.
Kerry is the inspiration for Rambo.
And American Gigolo.
Ah the circle of life - Kerry helped this country throw the Vietnam war away so the North could claim victory, now he goes to schmooze with those he helped - a round of celebratory champagne no doubt.....
Once twice three times a traitorrrrrr
Don’t forget the exploding rice.
Well, he has met with the North Vietnamese before. I believe it was Christmas 1969.
Well, he has met with the North Vietnamese before. I believe it was Christmas 1969.
Mr. Cook, I read your pieces on a regular basis and find your work to be exemplary. However,I am going to take exception to the use of "our troops" in that sentence. Substitute "our government" for our troops and the sentence will be valid.
I did not see your comment when I posted mine and obviously I agree fully.
you forgot a sarcasm tag, I hope.
Absolutely correctamundo. I'd like to see a thorough background check on every Representative and Senator who voted to cut off aid (even bandages and transfusion/saline packs!) to the ARVN in their extreme need.
That was vicious, and it was the moment the Communists showed their hands.
I want every one of them investigated..... And I wouldn't mind if some of them were renditioned as well.
The comment about speaking French is the giveaway.
Question: Why doesn't Skerry learn Portuguese? That'd make it easier for Terraayyyyyza to bawl him out.
the Contras, were partially funded by the United States, secretly via the CIA
Yep, that’s when Attorney General William French Smith went before a select committee of CONGRESS and begged for and then received “Special Permission” to Import Cocaine in to the US to finance the Contras, see Oliver North
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