Kerry Blasts Foreign Policy, Says U.S. Has Become 'International Pariah'

[stephanie]

Saturday, January 27, 2007


DAVOS, Switzerland — 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."



Kerry said the government needs to use diplomacy to improve national security.

"We need to do a better job of protecting our interests, because after all, that's what diplomacy is about," he said. "But you have to do it in a context of the reality, not your lens but the reality of those other cultures and histories."

Kerry criticized what he called the "unfortunate habit" of Americans to see the world "exclusively through an American lens."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,247484,00.html

Real nice....go run down your country oversees....

[jillian]

Hey...maybe you guys can boycott his records.

Seriously, the right is always saying how they don't care about what other countries think. Well, there's a payback for that. Or should they love us anyway? Mwaaaaaaaaaaah!

[manu1959]

Saturday, January 27, 2007


DAVOS, Switzerland — 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."



Kerry said the government needs to use diplomacy to improve national security.

"We need to do a better job of protecting our interests, because after all, that's what diplomacy is about," he said. "But you have to do it in a context of the reality, not your lens but the reality of those other cultures and histories."

Kerry criticized what he called the "unfortunate habit" of Americans to see the world "exclusively through an American lens."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,247484,00.html

Real nice....go run down your country oversees....

do the lies ever end..............

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4638323.stm

White House adviser Stephen Hadley said aid would rise from $4.3bn (£2.4bn) in 2004 to $8.6bn by 2010.

Congress has not yet approved Mr Bush's proposed increase in aid.

[jillian]

do the lies ever end..............

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4638323.stm

White House adviser Stephen Hadley said aid would rise from $4.3bn (£2.4bn) in 2004 to $8.6bn by 2010.

Congress has not yet approved Mr Bush's proposed increase in aid.

The article is from 2005. You gonna blame the dems for something that the repub congress didn't do then?

Hint: If the rubber stamp repubs didn't pass it, it's because Bush didn't want it.

Do you know if they did anything with it in the last two years?

[Pale Rider]

Yeah sure... knock down another couple sky scrapers full of people, bomb another one of our military barracks' and kill a bunch of our soilders, bomb another one of our battle ships, just keep trying to kill us all while we sit and apologize for ourselves... yeah... kill us all... we deserve it for being the best country on earth.

FUCK KERRY. FUCK LIBERALS. FUCK DEMOCRATS. FUCKING TRIATOROUS BASTARDS.

[stephanie]

Kerry rips Bush in front of former Iranian president at Davos;


Update: Video addedposted at 1:24 pm on January 27, 2007 by Allahpundit
Send to a Friend | printer-friendly This isn’t the first time a major Democratic politician, or even Waffles himself, has handed Islamic fundamentalists a propaganda freebie.
There's a video at the site....I couldn't get it to play, maybe someone else will have better luck..

http://hotair.com/archives/2007/01/2...dent-at-davos/

[TheSage]

Kerry is such a fucksnot.

[Gunny]

Hey...maybe you guys can boycott his records.

Maybe he won't be so stupid as to try and run on his military record again? I CAN see why he tried though .... his political record is sorrier than his military one.

Seriously, the right is always saying how they don't care about what other countries think. Well, there's a payback for that. Or should they love us anyway? Mwaaaaaaaaaaah!

Yeah, it'd be much better if we allow appeasing idiots to dictate US policy. They don't have any balls and want to play ostrich so we should go along to get along instead of running up the bullshit flag.

Sad.