Posted on 01/27/2007 9:52:21 AM PST by jdm
There's something about the Davos economic summit that drives American leftists to slam their own country while abroad. Two years ago, Eason Jordan lost his job at CNN over his accusations in Davos that the US military had a policy of assassinating journalists in war zones. Today, John Kerry used the forum to scold the Bush administration for its foreign policy while specifying two issues that predate it:
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."
The statement came as the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee responded to a question 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 to adequately address 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."
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:
President Bush's legacy is sure to be defined by his wielding of U.S. military power in Afghanistan and Iraq, but there is another, much softer and less-noticed effort by his administration in foreign affairs: a dramatic increase in U.S. aid to Africa.
The president has tripled direct humanitarian and development aid to the world's most impoverished continent since taking office and recently vowed to double that increased amount by 2010 -- to nearly $9 billion. ...
Bush has increased direct development and humanitarian aid to Africa to more than $4 billion a year from $1.4 billion in 2001, according to the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. And four African nations -- Sudan, Ethiopia, Egypt and Uganda -- rank among the world's top 10 recipients in aid from the United States.
So not only is John Kerry a hypocrite, he's also an ignoramus. However, we have noticed that the Davos forum has become, over the years, a convention of sorts for both. Kerry should feel right at home.
Kerry for democrat presidential nominee!! (pleeeeze)
Semper Fi
Khatami & Kerry: A Common Denominator
Isn't that special?
Nothing new here, really.
He's been giving encouragement,,,and 'aid-and-comfort' to the enemies of the US for over 30 years now. That's precisely what makes him such an eloquent spokeman for the entire Democratic Party.
I've boycotted MA for 20 years, and I grew up in CT, which I've boycotted since liarWeicker.
FMCDH(BITS)
Or just step in front of an Abrams MBT driven by one of those "stupid" ones.
That'll work! ;-)
I wonder how many e-mails with the single word, "TRAITOR" it would take to get through that thick skull of his.
Probably chose Davos because he's so much more comfortable in French.
Didn't Bono [who spends our taxes like he's a Dim] just rip the Dems for CUTTING Bush's aid to Africa for HIV?
Back in the good old eighties (the 20th century, not the 19th, paleos) there was a period when White House Chief-of-Staff, the illustrious and thoroughly moderate, James Baker, was attempting to steer Ronald Reagan in a more pragmatic direction. It got so bad, that some administration conservatives said that Baker and his gang, attempted to purloign and hide Reagan's lastest issues of "Human Events." It was during those times that the phrase was coined, "Let Reagan be Reagan." Well I think were seeing the progressive version of that on display.
Now that Jean Francois doesn't have to worry about a general election campaign, he can tailor his message strictly to the kooks and nuts of the RAT party. sKerry doesn't have to worry about appealing to the rational and the sane. So let "sKerry be sKerry," and just sit back and enjoy the popcorn, while he drinks the kool-aid.
Now, that he's not running for president he can be full time anti-American jerk without any pretense of caring for his own country. Now, we see the real John Kerry.
Does he want the VP slot?
He's probably an "unintentional pariah," if you want to know the inconvenient truth! LOL.
Math grades must've been lower than The President's.
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