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Kerry Slams ‘Trigger Happy’ Critics: U.S. Should Be ‘Proud’ of Obama’s Diplomatic Successes
Mediaite ^ | 20 Jul 2014 | Evan McMurry

Posted on 07/20/2014 6:21:02 PM PDT by mandaladon

Juggling foreign policy hotspots from Israel to Iran to Ukraine, Secretary of State John Kerry strongly defended the Obama administration’s foreign policy to Meet the Press host David Gregory, arguing that the administration had successfully used diplomacy to further peace whereas certain previous administration (a-HEM) were “trigger happy” to the point of starting wars.

“What [Obama] faces is a problem with a bunch of critics who want to jump to conclusions without looking at the facts,” Kerry said. “The facts could not be more clear. The United States of America has never been more engaged, helping to lead in more places than we are now.”

Kerry listed multiple diplomatic successes, from a quieter North Korea to the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons to the rollback of Iran’s nuclear program.

“One thing I’ve seen for certain: people aren’t worrying around the United States, sitting around wanted the US to leave; people are afraid the United States might leave,” Kerry said. “The fact is that in every fundamental issue of conflict today, the United States is in the center, leading, and trying to find an effort to make peace where peace is very difficult.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhoforeignpolicy; kerry; obama; soskerry
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The American people ought to be proud in terms of what this president has done in terms of peaceful diplomatic engagement, rather than quick trigger, deploying troops, starting or engaging in a war of choice.”...................What is he talking about?
1 posted on 07/20/2014 6:21:02 PM PDT by mandaladon
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What diplomatic successes?


2 posted on 07/20/2014 6:22:10 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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And those successes would be..........?

vaudine

3 posted on 07/20/2014 6:22:25 PM PDT by vaudine
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Kerry forgot to mention that the border is secure...according to Reid.


4 posted on 07/20/2014 6:22:26 PM PDT by mandaladon (To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an)
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Oh, what a good little campaign worker you are, Johnny...

/s


5 posted on 07/20/2014 6:23:09 PM PDT by logi_cal869
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To: mandaladon

Name one success, Jacques Al-Qerry..


6 posted on 07/20/2014 6:23:34 PM PDT by cardinal4
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To: mandaladon

Well someone flipped a penny to reid and bought his favor.


7 posted on 07/20/2014 6:24:18 PM PDT by chiefqc
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To: mandaladon

the mans clearly either utterly demented or he’s been taking speech lessons from that that great scholar and theologianifier Revrunt Al Sharpton...


8 posted on 07/20/2014 6:24:27 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: mandaladon

He’s on a roll, wait till he gets to the part about
the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor...


9 posted on 07/20/2014 6:24:47 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: mandaladon

Hey Hanoi Boi! Bite me!


10 posted on 07/20/2014 6:24:52 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The future must not belong to those who slander bacon.)
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To: mandaladon

They must be speaking of his gift of an Ipod filled with HIS speeches to ? One of those English royalty folks?

That the win? I can think of.


11 posted on 07/20/2014 6:25:25 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (What is the differnce in spontinaity and ADD?)
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To: mandaladon

12 posted on 07/20/2014 6:27:25 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: mandaladon

Please tell me more....

Man whore...


13 posted on 07/20/2014 6:27:45 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: mandaladon

No doubt suffering from PTSD after that terrible tour on the “94 Boat” and those days on the beach in front of the O’Club at An Thoi.


14 posted on 07/20/2014 6:30:26 PM PDT by TaMoDee (Go Pack Go! The Pack will be back in 2014!)
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15 posted on 07/20/2014 6:31:02 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: mandaladon

He’s talking about using our taxpayer money to shove homosexuality down the throats ( so to speak) of countries all around the world.


16 posted on 07/20/2014 6:32:50 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
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17 posted on 07/20/2014 6:35:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: mandaladon

The administration sounds like a bunch of kooks even to liberals these days.


18 posted on 07/20/2014 6:41:30 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: mandaladon

If we were as trigger happy as Jacques the Gigolo, one of us would have shot ourselves in the ass and applied for a purple heart by now.


19 posted on 07/20/2014 6:45:11 PM PDT by FlJoePa
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To: mandaladon

OMG, please tell me this is satire.


20 posted on 07/20/2014 6:45:59 PM PDT by dforest
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