Kerry: U.S. Has Become ‘International Pariah’
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry slammed the foreign policy of the Bush administration on Saturday, saying it has caused the United States to become “a sort of international pariah.”
Kerry was asked about whether the U.S. government had failed to adequately engage Iran’s government before the election of hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005.
Kerry said the Bush administration has failed in addressing a number of foreign policy issues.
“When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don’t advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy,” Kerry said.
“So we have a crisis of confidence in the Middle East ” in the world, really. I’ve never seen our country as isolated, as much as a sort of international pariah for a number of reasons as it is today.”:
Kerry criticized what he called the “unfortunate habit” of Americans to see the world “exclusively through an American lens.”
He said this while seated next to the former CEO of one of the world’s foremost terrorist states, which as we speak is working on building nuclear weapons, bankrolling Hezbollah’s efforts to foment civil war in Lebanon and Hamas’s exterminationist jihad against Israel, and supplying Shiite militias with IEDs to kill American soldiers in Iraq. Whose current leadership, lest we forget, Kerry has previously signaled a desire to meet with. Note the bolded bit in the quote, too: given a direct choice between defending the president or siding with the Iranian government circa 2003 ” whose nominal leader was, of course, Khatami himself ” Lurch essentially chose the latter.
Then he signed an autograph for the pig. The same pig who, six months ago, defended executing gays for the crime of homosexuality.
Once again, we have the spectre of Kyoto haunting the Bush administration, when it was the Clinton administration that refused to submit the treaty to the Senate — and the Senate that unanimously passed a resolution saying they’d never ratify it. The Byrd-Hagel Resolution in 1997 made it clear that the US would not allow itself to be bound by the treaty as long as it exempted India, China, and other developing nations. That’s the same position as the Bush Administration has taken — and the same position that John Kerry himself took in 1997 when he voted in favor of the Byrd-Hagel Resolution.
That’s yet another example of the hypocrisy of John Kerry — but there’s more.
He took the time to scold the Bush administration for its lack of effort on AIDS and other diseases in Africa. However, Bush has already spent more on these issues than the last Democratic administration did in eight years. Humanitarian aid to Africa comprised $1.4 billion a year at the end of the Clinton administration, but Bush has tripled that to $4 billion per year — and wants to more than double it over the next two years
Glenn Reynolds sums Kerry up in his link back to this post: “Like Jimmy Carter, he’ll never forgive America for rejecting him, and he’ll console himself with the approval of America’s enemies.”
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January 27, 2007 - 02:57 PM on January 27th, 2007
Looters and Leeches of the Democratic Party
After so many years of our country fighting to rid humanity of Communism, are we now embracing it within America? Yes one political party is embracing it.
January 27, 2007 - 02:59 PM on January 27th, 2007
John Kerry is blabbering this GLOBAL WARMING poppycock nonsnense it sounds to me like he is being a total jerk there is no global warming its all that HOT AIR from the wackos including AL GORE and the wackys at GREENPEACE:razz:
January 27, 2007 - 06:41 PM on January 27th, 2007
Open Trackback Weekend #39
It’s time once again for the open trackback party. Just leave a post and I’ll be sure to send a tb ping your way.
January 27, 2007 - 08:22 PM on January 27th, 2007
I think that Kerry is right. Republicans and Bush in particular are too stupid to appreciate the complexities of International politics. Kerry is doing America a great service. Republican idiots are going to further isolate America with their simple minded approach towards such sensitive issues.
January 27, 2007 - 09:17 PM on January 27th, 2007
Desktop Wallpaper for Cat Lovers
Because we missed the Friday cat blog, I thought I would post the special desktop wallpaper I had Bruce design. I see this as an ideal wallpaper for people who love cats. In fact, I can’t imagine any cat…
January 28, 2007 - 12:39 AM on January 28th, 2007
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January 28, 2007 - 09:56 AM on January 28th, 2007
“international pariah” may be a bit of an overstatement, but American credibility on the international stage is really low, would ignoring, or refusing to admit, that accomplish anything?
January 28, 2007 - 10:41 AM on January 28th, 2007
‘international pariah’?
He’s only in step with the bipartisan thinking. Let’s get up to speed folks.
We are an international disgrace and it’s at the hands of the megalomaniac you folks insist on going down on that Titanic of his with.
Time to rethink guys.
I wonder who’d be the “Villian du jour” today.
Kerry, Sen. Clinton, ex-Pres. Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Ted….
God damn. Bang a different drum.
January 28, 2007 - 11:06 AM on January 28th, 2007
And we can thank Mr. Jimma Carter for this.
January 28, 2007 - 11:08 AM on January 28th, 2007
News from the front
43 Insurgents Detained, Weapons Found, Captives Freed
January 28, 2007 - 12:20 PM on January 28th, 2007
A need for more fact checking?
Michelle Malkin recently went to Iraq to do some fact checking because of AP reporting. [3] It looks like more of the same is needed.
January 28, 2007 - 12:48 PM on January 28th, 2007
And we can thank the idiot monkey George Bush for getting us into this unnecessary and tragic war in Iraq…
worst president ever; America has never before been so hated and distrusted,and it’s all because of him.
January 28, 2007 - 01:04 PM on January 28th, 2007
“Republican idiots are going to further isolate America with their simple minded approach towards such sensitive issues.”
If that’s the case, then huzzah for the Republicans. I am an isolationist. I do not care for the liberal foreign policies of either the Republicans or the Democrats. If we were really smart, our invasion of Iraq would have never become necesary to begin with.
January 28, 2007 - 05:02 PM on January 28th, 2007
Now you’re an isolationist.
Where were you when your country needed you to stand up and oppose the unneceassry war in Iraq?
I was in the street shouting against it.
Where were you?
January 28, 2007 - 07:12 PM on January 28th, 2007
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January 28, 2007 - 07:39 PM on January 28th, 2007
Oh please! If Kerry, and most of you for that matter, are too ignorant to realize that the rest of the world can see us via our internet, cable tv etc., just as we can see them, and there are no more dreams of what America is like, because they can see us 24/7, you deserve to wallow in your stupidity.
January 28, 2007 - 07:41 PM on January 28th, 2007
Capitol Police Ordered To Permit Anti-War Vandalism Of Capitol Building
I think we can see one way that “regime change” in favor of the cut-and-run Democrats on Capitol Hill has made a difference — anti-war vandals were allowed to spray-paint the Capitol while police stood by and did nothing. Anti-war…
January 29, 2007 - 03:04 AM on January 29th, 2007
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January 29, 2007 - 03:04 AM on January 29th, 2007
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January 29, 2007 - 07:26 AM on January 29th, 2007
Peejz,
Liberal loserism is a mental disease. Look ate the losers who hate America because America rejected them at the polls. Kerry and Carter will always hate America because we told them to take a hike.