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.
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JOHN KERRY =
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And disgusting.
>>a sort of [an] international pariah<<
Sort of? There's that nuance again...
So that means I can say Jon Cary is "sort of" a complete a-hole, with impugnity. Excellent.
Thanks Jon!
Half of the US citizens wanted this communist to run this country. Conservatives are a dying breed. I pray for my children.
God must have a plan involving the socialization of the US. It certainly has been out of the control of the voter for quite some time.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Or a "botched" pariah, HA!
Why do we fund AIDS in Africa and not Diabetes in Duluth?
"Those who doubted whether Iraq or the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein, and those who believe today that we are not safer with his capture, don't have the judgment to be President, or the credibility to be elected President.
No one can doubt or should doubt that we are safer -- and Iraq is better -- because Saddam Hussein is now behind bars."
Senator John Kerry (Democrat, Massachusetts)
Speech at Drake University in Iowa
December 16, 2003
http://www.jsonline.com/news/gen/dec03/193182.asp?format=print
http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/sports/BO41238/
Schilling could be John Kerry's opponent in 2008 senate race BOSTON -- A pitch for Red Sox ace Curt Schilling to replace John Kerry in the U.S. Senate. Today's Boston Herald reports there's a move to draft Schilling as Kerry's opponent in the 2008 senate race.
An online poll of 800 voters has Schilling leading Kerry by 96 percent.
Schilling says he isn't ready to toss his hat into the political arena yet. He says his focus is on winning another World Series and his charitable foundation for ALS.
Welcome back to Davos, Jon Cary!!
How would you like to bash your country this year?
Sedition wins you some points, but outright treason is what we really want to see! Give it your best shot!
— The Global Socialist Committee of Blowhards —
I have posted many times the past few years, that Kerry, Fonda and Ted Kennedy, Kerry’s mentor, should have been tried for treason during the Nam War.
When found guilty, they should have been hung and left in the Capitol Rotunda as a warning to other traitors in Congress.
If that had happened, America would be a better place, and Kerry’s continued acts of sedition and treason would not have happened.
And it is this reason I believe that any Senator that runs for Presidential office should have to give up their seat in the senate when they do so. Its like leaving your job and touring the country to find a new job....WHY NOT....your job with yearly pay raises will be waiting for you when you return. We need to start a campaign to make them give up their seats when seeking election elsewhere.
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