Posted on 01/16/2017 7:57:42 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday it was "inappropriate" for Donald Trump to brand German Chancellor Angela Merkel's refugee policy "a catastrophic mistake".
"I thought frankly it was inappropriate for a president-elect of the United States to be stepping into the politics of other countries in a quite direct manner," Kerry told CNN's Christiane Amanpour during a one-day visit to London in the last week of the Obama administration.
"He will have to speak to that. As of Friday, he is responsible for that relationship."
Trump, who will be sworn in as president on Friday, had said in a joint interview with Bild newspaper and the Times of London that he respected Merkel, but criticized her stance on refugees, which allowed a wave of more than 1 million refugees into Germany.
Merkel faces a tough re-election battle in September.
"I think we have to be very careful about suggesting that one's strongest leaders in Europe, and most important players with respect to where we are heading, made one mistake or another. I don't think it's appropriate for us to be commenting on that," Kerry said.
He rejected Trump's description of Merkel's refugee policy as "catastrophic".
"I think she was extremely courageous. I don't think it amounts to that characterization," Kerry said. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
So says the man who felt free to muck about in Israeli politics.
There are certain world events that do reverberate like that. It’s not like Trump is nosing into every municipal election in every podunk town of Poland, or something like that.
If Germany wants to catch rabies again, it should be prepared for the consequences again. Donald is doing Germany a favor by warning it.
You mean like Obama inserted himself into British politics regarding Brexit?
Or like how Obama and Clinton ‘came, saw and killed’ Gadhafi in Libya?
Or like they meddle in Israel?
Or like they meddle in Syria?
Or like how Bill Clinton bombed Syria to get Monica Lewinsky off the front page?
Or...
These people are total hypocrites
Kerry is one who I’m the most excited to see LEAVE
GTFO you anti American POS
It’s inappropriate to criticize Euro-globalists says Kerry.
Courageous? No... Merkel is a coward and has bowed to pressure from the Left. A courageous person doesn’t commit suicide.
“I think she was extremely courageous....” Kerry said.”
I think, frankly, that it is inappropriate for the Secretary of State of the United states, that only has four days left; to be stepping into the politics of other countries in a quite direct manner.
(Writing that sentence in my own voice - who the heck talks like that!? Oh I know - politicians that want to try to sound smart and ‘diplomatic’).
Prezactly. And IIRC.....the UK was invited into ours to lobby.
ROFLOL
“I think she was extremely courageous.
No, Lurch, Trump was the courageous one, who disregarded dangerous political correctness and called out the most destructive Western European leader since the 1940s. The safety of Germany and Europe is related to our national interests, and Merkel and her allies have seriously compromised the safety of her country and continent.
VILLAGE VOICE 2-17-2004:
WHEN JOHN KERRY’S COURAGE WENT M.I.A.
BY Sidney H. Schanberg
Senator John Kerry, a decorated battle veteran, was courageous as a navy lieutenant in the Vietnam War. But he was not so courageous more than two decades later, when he covered up voluminous evidence that a significant number of live American prisonersperhaps hundredswere never acknowledged or returned after the war-ending treaty was signed in January 1973.
The Massachusetts senator, now seeking the presidency, carried out this subterfuge a little over a decade ago shredding documents, suppressing testimony, and sanitizing the committee’s final reportwhen he was chairman of the Senate Select Committee on P.O.W./ M.I.A. Affairs.
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/when-john-kerrys-courage-went-mia-6408399
This the same feller who got into the politics of Syria, Iraq, lybia, Egypt, Yemen, england, Ukraine?
Oh that’s Rich is Right. Hypocrisy thy name is Kerry.
Total Fool. Good bye D’bag in 3 days.
I’d suggest that it is inappropriate to toss someone else’s medals over the white Mosque’s fence.
I think Merkel has admitted it was a mistate.
Kerry, Marco, Lewis and the rest sound like old maids tut-tutting and clucking because a smokin’ hot single woman walked into church, just as services started, and sat down in the front row.
Hah!
I am convinced the reason the press is screaming so loudly about Russian interference is so no one notices how much SAUDI ARABIA interfered with the election.
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