Kerry team: Packed with Clinton-era veterans

Straits Times ^ | March 20, 2004 | Roger Mitton

[FairOpinion]

MOST of Mr John Kerry's foreign policy team members are veterans from former president Bill Clinton's administration. The key members are:

Mr Rand Beers, reportedly Mr Kerry's principal foreign affairs adviser; served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs under Mr Clinton and the current President George W. Bush. He quit the post last August to join Mr Kerry. No liberal, he is known for rather hawkish views.

Mr Richard Morningstar, a former ambassador to Central Asia.

Ms Nancy Stetson, who works for Mr Kerry in the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Mr Richard Holbrooke, a former US representative to the United Nations; was Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs under president Jimmy Carter and is well-known in Asia. He is also well-known for his prickly temperament.

Mr Sandy Berger, president Clinton's national security adviser and a former policy planner at the State Department; has wide experience in Asian affairs and had travelled with Mr Clinton on his trips to Asia.

But Mr Berger is yet another recycled face.

Mr Bill Perry, a defence secretary in the Clinton administration; is said to be Mr Kerry's principal adviser on military and security affairs.

He later served as a special envoy on North Korea and is reportedly behind Mr Kerry's initiative to open bilateral talks with Pyongyang on its nuclear programme.

Like Senator Kerry, Mr Perry favours a velvet glove approach that would replace the Bush administration's military-first, talk-later strategy with a negotiated solution to problems.

[FairOpinion]

"approach that would replace the Bush administration's military-first, talk-later strategy with a negotiated solution to problems. "

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Kerry would try to appease the terrorists.

Someone should make a cartoon showing Kerry in the Oval Office, talking on the red phone with Osama -- showing Osama on his red phone (Made in the USA), Kerry asking Osama what he should do to please him, or something along those lines.

[My2Cents]

No wonder Kerry lies so well and so often.

[swampfox98]

They just want to be in place when Kerry turns his support over to Hillary. Second ballot!

[dirtboy]

Like Senator Kerry, Mr Perry favours a velvet glove approach that would replace the Bush administration's military-first, talk-later strategy with a negotiated solution to problems.

Which worked so well against al Qaeda during the Clinton years.

The liberal mindset simply escapes my comprehension. Their answer to failure always is to do more, more, more of what is failing in the bizzare hope that if you finally do enough of it, you'll finally succeed.

[FairOpinion]

"Their answer to failure always is to do more, more, more of what is failing in the bizzare hope that if you finally do enough of it, you'll finally succeed."

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"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. "

--- Albert Einstein

[al baby]

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. "

Sounds like my drinking days im just a few weeks shy of 3 years

[al baby]

Sober