John Kerry’s Alarming Priorities

[American_Jihad]

Dee Dee Dee Duh

John Kerry’s Alarming Priorities​

February 21, 2013
By Joseph Klein

Al Qaeda and its affiliates are running all over North Africa and the Middle East while remaining a serious threat to Pakistan and Afghanistan. Approximately 70,000 Syrians are dead in a civil war exploited by Iran, Russia and Islamist jihadists. Egypt is an economic basket case, ruled by an increasingly unpopular authoritarian Islamist regime. Iran is getting ever closer to achieving its nuclear arms ambitions. North Korea has just exploded its third and most powerful nuclear bomb and is also developing inter-continental missile technology, which its military has said is “targeted” for the United States. China is engaging in cyber attacks on U.S. companies and government agencies. The “reset” of relations with Russia is reset in reverse.

In short, Secretary of State John Kerry assumes his office facing some of the most challenging foreign policy issues in a generation. One might think that his first major foreign policy address would deal with the clear and present dangers facing the United States and the free world today, such as the proliferation of nuclear arms into the wrong hands, the Arab Spring-Turned-Winter or global terrorism, which cost Ambassador John Christopher Stevens and three other Americans their lives last September 11th.

But that would be too much to ask. Instead, Kerry decided to use his speech on February 20th at the University of Virginia to indulge in clichéd generalities about the importance of State Department foreign “investments” (i.e., foreign aid), promotion of American values abroad, and the need to tackle climate change. He also threw in for good measure a warning about budget cuts and the looming sequester.

“Some might ask why I’m standing here – why I’m starting here – a Secretary of State making his first speech in the United States,” Kerry said. “They might ask, ‘Doesn’t diplomacy happen over there, overseas, far beyond the boundaries of our own backyard?’”

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Finally, Kerry couldn’t resist using the phrase “world citizens” in his University of Virginia speech. It is reminiscent of his declaration during the 2004 presidential campaign that America’s decision to go to war must pass “the global test” – whatever that means.

Let’s hope that Kerry’s debut speech as Secretary of State is not indicative of how he will perform on the global stage. But with the radical Obama administration behind him, the outlook is pessimistic.

John Kerry?s Alarming Priorities

 

[TheOldSchool]

The GOP has decided they will oppose an individual at every turn, without exception, regardless of rationale and to the full detriment of our nation???

I'm shocked!!!

 

[asaratis]

The GOP has decided they will oppose an individual at every turn, without exception, regardless of rationale and to the full detriment of our nation???

I'm shocked!!!

There is no degree of ineptness at which a liberal politician could exist that a liberal follower would not approve. That is scary.

Perhaps the GOP has higher expectations regarding leadership at the cabinet level than does the liberal audience.

That the Secretary of State appears oblivious to the serious dangers we face from all over the world is good reason to doubt his adequacy in that post.

It's almost as if Obama is deliberately choosing people that will fail to do us justice...like John Kerry and Chuck Hagel.

 

[Decus]

The GOP has decided they will oppose an individual at every turn, without exception, regardless of rationale and to the full detriment of our nation???

I'm shocked!!!

There is no degree of ineptness at which a liberal politician could exist that a liberal follower would not approve. That is scary.

Perhaps the GOP has higher expectations regarding leadership at the cabinet level than does the liberal audience.

That the Secretary of State appears oblivious to the serious dangers we face from all over the world is good reason to doubt his adequacy in that post.

It's almost as if Obama is deliberately choosing people that will fail to do us justice...like John Kerry and Chuck Hagel.

Funny because yesterday (February 20th) expats and Americans living abroad were sent this alert from the State Department by sms and email:

Worldwide Caution

Kerry must be getting his information somewhere else.

 

[asaratis]

The GOP has decided they will oppose an individual at every turn, without exception, regardless of rationale and to the full detriment of our nation???

I'm shocked!!!

There is no degree of ineptness at which a liberal politician could exist that a liberal follower would not approve. That is scary.

Perhaps the GOP has higher expectations regarding leadership at the cabinet level than does the liberal audience.

That the Secretary of State appears oblivious to the serious dangers we face from all over the world is good reason to doubt his adequacy in that post.

It's almost as if Obama is deliberately choosing people that will fail to do us justice...like John Kerry and Chuck Hagel.

Funny because yesterday (February 20th) expats and Americans living abroad were sent this alert from the State Department by sms and email:

Worldwide Caution

Kerry must be getting his information somewhere else.

That is a commonly issued travel advisory for American citizens issued by the DoS and updated on a regular basis. It is not any sort of revelation about what Kerry, as Secretary of State intends to do about Korea, Al Qaeda, Iran, Egypt, increased protection of our ambassadors and the other major issues mentioned in the OP.

You missed the point. Try again!

 

[RoadVirus]

Good to see John Kerry is taking his job seriously.

What an idiot.

 

[Stephanie]

man oh man, first Hillary now this..

we are so screwed

 

[Katzndogz]

John Kerry is doing exactly what he was supposed to do and showing us why he was so perfect for the office in obama's regime.

Yes, it is an astute observation. obama is deliberately choosing people that will fail at advancing American interests. This is part of obama's revenge.

 

[Stephanie]

Absolutely horrible administration, with Obama as their leader

not one good thing to say about us or our country and climate change is their priority

I hope we survive this

 

[blastoff]

And there is absolutely no truth to the rumor JFK is now slipping the family yacht, Babe's Money, in Monaco.

 

[tinydancer]

Kerry Hagel and Brennan. The best the White House can offer Americans?

Kerry to concentrate on global warming in his position.

Hagel cheered on by Iran

Brennan "we like killing people with drones".

Special

 

[tinydancer]

Absolutely horrible administration, with Obama as their leader

not one good thing to say about us or our country and climate change is their priority

I hope we survive this

Good luck!

 

[depotoo]

The GOP has decided they will oppose an individual at every turn, without exception, regardless of rationale and to the full detriment of our nation???

I'm shocked!!!

There is no degree of ineptness at which a liberal politician could exist that a liberal follower would not approve. That is scary.

Perhaps the GOP has higher expectations regarding leadership at the cabinet level than does the liberal audience.

That the Secretary of State appears oblivious to the serious dangers we face from all over the world is good reason to doubt his adequacy in that post.

It's almost as if Obama is deliberately choosing people that will fail to do us justice...like John Kerry and Chuck Hagel.

Funny because yesterday (February 20th) expats and Americans living abroad were sent this alert from the State Department by sms and email:

Worldwide Caution

Kerry must be getting his information somewhere else.

yeah, his own state department states otherwise, amazing -
February 19, 2013

The Department of State has issued this Worldwide Caution to update information on the continuing threat of terrorist actions and violence against U.S. citizens and interests throughout the world. U.S. citizens are reminded to maintain a high level of vigilance and to take appropriate steps to increase their security awareness. This replaces the Worldwide Caution dated July 18, 2012, to provide updated information on security threats and terrorist activities worldwide.

The Department of State remains concerned about the continued threat of terrorist attacks, demonstrations, and other violent actions against U.S. citizens and interests overseas. Current information suggests that al-Qaida, its affiliated organizations, and other terrorist organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks against U.S. interests in multiple regions, including Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. These attacks may employ a wide variety of tactics including suicide operations, assassinations, kidnappings, hijackings, and bombings.

 

[American_Jihad]

Kerry to Meet W/Syrian Rebel Leader Who Supports Al Qaeda​

February 26, 2013
By Daniel Greenfield

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Qatar appears to be shipping heavy weaponry to the Syrian Sunni Jihadists and the terrorists are feeling emboldened enough to threaten a boycott of a meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry.

It’s a telling sign of how much American influence has slipped that rather than America having the upper hand in dealing with the Syrian rebels, it’s the rebels who are acting as if they have the upper hand. And under Obama’s weak and inept leadership, they probably do.

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Sheik Moaz al-Khatib, the Muslim Brotherhood’s head of the “new” opposition legitimized by Hillary Clinton and Qatar. Unfortunately al-Khatib is at least as bad as Assad.

From an American point of view he might even be worse as he has supported collaboration with Al Qaeda linked militias in Syria.

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So that’s whom Kerry is pleading to meet with. A supporter of collaborating with Al Qaeda and a rabid bigot.

However NBC, the lead agency of the government-media complex is spinning the willingness of Al-Khatib to meet with Kerry as a “coup”.

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The bar for Obama Inc. is currently set so low that convincing a rebel group that gets millions in American aid to meet with the top American diplomatic official is considered a “coup”.

Next up, Kerry’s ability to walk and chew gum at the same time will be hailed as a breakthrough. And after that, there’s always the Nobel Peace Prize. I hear those are easy to get these days.

Kerry to Meet W/Syrian Rebel Leader Who Supports Al Qaeda

 

[Wehrwolfen]

 

[American_Jihad]

"Honey, we won't have to pay for those euro trips for the next four years."​

...

 

[American_Jihad]

John Kerry’s Jobs Program for Would-Be Jihadists​

October 4, 2013 By Robert Spencer

Last Friday in New York, at a meeting of the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF), Secretary of State John Kerry and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu launched what they called the “Global Fund for Community Engagement and Resilience,” which CNSNews.com said was intended to “support local communities and organizations to counter extremist ideology and promote tolerance.” It will do this essentially by giving potential jihad terrorists money and jobs – an initiative that proceeds from the false and oft-disproven assumption that poverty causes terrorism.

Kerry demonstrated his faith in this false assumption when he spoke about the importance of “providing more economic opportunities for marginalized youth at risk of recruitment” into jihad groups. The GCTF is devoting $200 million to this project, which it calls “countering violent extremism” (CVE).

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John Kerry?s Jobs Program for Would-Be Jihadists | FrontPage Magazine

 

[American_Jihad]

Kerry’s Peace Process Exploding

October 7, 2013 By P. David Hornik

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Meanwhile it was reported on Friday that terror attacks of all kinds rose “dramatically” in September, with a total of 133 (including, again, large numbers of rock- and firebomb-throwing incidents) compared to 68 in August.

It was last July 29 that the new round of ostensible Israeli-Palestinian peace talks was launched in Washington. It took months of heavy pressure on both sides by the new secretary of state, John Kerry, to reach that outcome.

The clincher was U.S. and Israeli acquiescence to the demand of Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas that the talks be accompanied by Israel’s phased release of 104 “pre-Oslo” (pre-1993) terrorists, including convicted murderers of men, women, and children. The first batch of 26 were released on August 13.

The justification given for the talks, and for the large-scale freeing of murderers, was that the talks would “calm the Palestinian arena” and possibly lead to peace in nine months, the time span that Kerry determined for them from the outset.

If it’s clear by now that the Palestinian arena has not been calmed (let alone making peace preparations), it’s not the first time that talks have in fact prompted a spike in terror.

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In reality, the “Arab-Israeli conflict” is now on the back burner, and Sunni Arab states mainly see Israel as a tacit ally against Iran. As for the Palestinian dimension of that conflict, it is not clear how many dead and wounded there will have to be until it is understood that, so long as the Palestinians view Israel as the incarnation of evil, prodding them toward “peace” only makes matters worse.

Kerry?s Peace Process Exploding | FrontPage Magazine

 

[American_Jihad]

Kerry’s “Peace Process” Fraud

December 10, 2013 by Joseph Puder

Given the turmoil surrounding the Arab Middle East, the endless bloodletting in Syria, Iraq, and Egypt, as well as Iran’s hegemonic drive in the region – which has opened a Sunni-Shite fault-line – Kerry’s obsessive focus on the creation of a Palestinian state seems somewhat incomprehensible.

“Kerry’s eagerness,” according to Aaron David Miller, a former Middle East peace negotiator who is now Vice President at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, “stems from being in a different place than Hillary Clinton and serving a changed White House. For Mr. Kerry, this job is the capstone of his career, a post he coveted second only to the presidency, and his aides say he is willing to take considerable risk to cement his legacy as a peacemaker. For Clinton, who still has a potential run in her future, secretary of state was a steppingstone, allowing her to burnish her credentials but also carrying potential risks, not least in the politically charged terrain of the Middle East. While Clinton dutifully made the rounds, she rarely took a big gamble on the peace process.”

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Kerry?s ?Peace Process? Fraud | FrontPage Magazine

 

[American_Jihad]

The Strange Moral Calculus of John Kerry

January 3, 2014 by P. David Hornik

On Wednesday the Israeli daily Maariv reported (summarized in English here) that the Israeli defense establishment

totally reject the American proposal for security arrangements in the Jordan Valley…. The American proposal presented to Israel was based on a limited Israeli presence at the border crossings along the Jordan River for a limited number of years, together with the massive use of technological means such as satellites and drones that would replace the army’s presence on the ground.

The position of the security services, as agreed upon recently by the Defense Minister, is that no replacement for the IDF will protect Israel’s security interests, and that even the most advanced technological means do not offer a serious alternative.

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Kerry, though, evidently feels no embarrassment at President Abbas’s kissing and hugging murderers. True, they were released with Kerry’s full approval.

Abrams’s point about “confidence-destroying measures” can be taken further. The U.S. wants Israel to be pliant like Justice Minister Tzipi Livni. But trying to put the Jordan Valley up for grabs, even though a four-and-a-half-decade consensus of Israeli military leaders views it as indispensable to Israel’s security, is not the way to achieve that.

Nor is signaling that Israeli lives don’t count for much, and taking Israeli lives isn’t much of a crime.

Nor is treating parts of Jerusalem that were illegally occupied by Jordan from 1949-1967, or “West Bank settlements” that we’re told will remain part of Israel anyway, as Jew-free zones.

Though a nationalistic, distrustful Israel with a sense of beleaguerment may not be what John Kerry wants, it’s what he’s increasingly promoting. How much better it would be to treat Israel as an ally.

The Strange Moral Calculus of John Kerry | FrontPage Magazine