This story is racing – no, raging – across the American blogosphere today. While seated beside former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami at the Davos economic summit in Switzerland;
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.”
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Kerry criticized what he called the “unfortunate habit” of Americans to see the world “exclusively through an American lens.”
| Allahpundit has video; “Then he signed an autograph for the pig. The same pig who, six months ago, defended executing gays for the crime of homosexuality.” |  |
Steve Shippert, Threatswatch.org;
This goes beyond aid and comfort, this is imposing self-inflicted wounds. Those are the words one expects from Ahmadinejad, not a sitting United States Senator. And this is what congressional Republicans are teaming up with, and it sickens me.
Seething with rage, I remind those here that Iran’s Qods Force executed – EXECUTED – US troops last Saturday. Captured them. Bound them together, and shot them in the skull.
Why? Because there is no price to be paid. Further, seeking to exert influence on our own self-serving political class, it was indeed a message to them more than it was any combat on our forces or retaliation for our capture of Quds Force operators embedded within their diplomatic corps.
They execute our men and we send our leaders to lament our misgivings in apology to the premiere state sponsors of terrorism.
There is a rage brewing and I am nearly incapable of writing at the moment. I hope that someone in here lends eloquence sans nuance to this.
This cannot stand, and hand-shaking Republican co-signatories need immediate rebuke in the strongest terms. For they own this man’s words and must understand. We see their words as the enemy does – inseperable and indistinguishable from a united message of apology.
I bear no apology. None. It is time for Iran to pay a price. We know where the EFP/IED factories are in Iran. We know where the IRGC barracks are. They are the word’s 4th leading oil exporter, yet a gasoline importer. There are a handful of refineries in various states of disrepair. We know where much of value to them is. If they are coming into Iraq to execute our men, we must send a message of the price to be paid, lest more follow. I am not calling for the declaration of war and invasion.
They blew up our embassy in Beruit. Nothing.
They blew up our Marine Barracks in Beirut. Nothing.
They hijacked an airliner and executed a US Navy diver. Nothing.
They were complicit in the 1996 Khobar Tower bombing. Nothing.
They are known to have trained al-Qaeda operatives in Hizballah’s Bekka Valley and in Sudan. Nothing.
They train, fund and arm Sadr’s men and AQ in Iraq. Nothing.
They summarily executed a US Army Public Affairs Unit in Krabala. ___________.
I sense that others in here do not understand what I mean when I say executed.
And WE are the pariah? Have we lost our damned minds?
What message are we to send our men currently fighting the fight? “Move along, nothing to see here.”???
I have always hated those damned yellow ribbons, especially when they were intended to show some modicum of support for me while I was myself deployed. I swear to you today, every cheesy yellow ribbon I find on a car or signpost is getting ripped down. This is no substitute for fortitude, yet that is precisely what it represents to far too many. Take off your yellow ribbon. Far too many display them so that they can be percieved one way or another, not so that troops may take some measure of support from them.
I need to end this rant here, hoping that I can find calm at some point today to effectively fight this fight with the only weapon left me: words. I feel like a raging bull, struggling for self control, driven to the edge by the self-service of others.
Related:
“Hey, I bet you’ve probably wondered why Al Qaeda hasn’t struck in the US since 9/11. They don’t have to.“
Flashback – Kerry’s “Global Test”
“Glory days, well, they’ll pass you by, glory days”
Bruce Springsteen
John Kerry just pulled a Swift Boat the size of the Queen Elizabeth II ocean liner.
Man overboard!
Kerry is stuck on stupid. He and his fellow turncoats and the media think that the enemy doesn’t pay attention to the news, papers, blogs etc. They know they have fifth columnists in the State Department and editorial rooms. Kerry is probably surprised to find that the american media and citizens know what he said, and saw him signing an autograph. (or was that a cheque) And Jane Fonda is back again, Too bad that conference wasn’t last October. As Rush says, elections have consequences, and the those that stayed away from the polls, or voted democratic are finding that out the hard way. That should send a message to cdn voters who are planning to park their vote or lend it out, the really listen to dion and his plans, and also to what the liberals try to pretend they care about. Their only objective is to get back to the trough.
Oh! I just noticed that CNN has this as a minor story. They portray it as ” Kerry speaks and the Iranians listen”. CNN needs to be brought to its knees!!!!!
“The Boston Big Dig, 14.6 billion dollars in ”
ah yes the big dig over in kennedyland aka *MESS*achusetts.
and who knew at the bottom of the hole would be a slip of paper with “amount due $14,000,000,000” on it.
and its already falling apart because the bolts holding the ceiling in place were not upgraded when they opted for bigger prefabed slabs (goggle it).
think of the alternate uses that much money could have had but no, we’se gots ta cater to the car culture (buzzzzzzz hargrove would be proud). kinda like the 400 series highway parking lots going around and thru tranna. only time theres guaranteed no traffic jam ever is between 330 a.m. and 430 a.m sunday.
Hey Steve Shippert, I’m 64 years old and served 6 years in the military. If I catch you removing the yellow ribbons from my car, I’ll kick your ass.
beenaround the block said: “Give me a break, WL Mackenzie Redux: “Get over that BS…dissent is the stuff of a healthy democracy.”
There is honest and honourable dissent–which, I agree, is what democracy is all about–and then there’s stab-your-own-country-in-the-back (or should I say gut, seeing as Kerry met with former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami and dissed the U.S. in full view of the whole world).
If you can’t see the difference WL, then there’s not much point in anyone trying to explain it to you. Your namesake had a few problems discerning fact from fiction, too, as I recall.”
> Obviously you did not read what I posted with any understanding, because you repeated pretty much what I said.
When you push the send key on reactionary blather before you read with understanding the comments you criticize,…well…. this explains a lot of vacant commentary.
BTW; Re-read your history books on WLM…I can see you read history with as little comprehension as you do the posts at SDA.
The Conservatives about to make a very public shot back at the MSM especially CBCpravda
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070127/tory_ads_070127/20070127?hub=TopStories
they have to counter the propaganda from the MSM somehow…..can’t think of a better way to spend my contributions….lol
check out the story on drudge regarding the war protest in Washington….some moonbat actually said that hanoi jane was qualified to get up on stage because she “is a long distance runner”
wow….I run…that qualifies me for anything other than running?
Today’s two minute hate generated more foam and spittle than most.
The notion that most American’s are ignorant about the rest of the world is hardly controversial. Although I can understand why pointing that fact out can drive some people up the wall.
Many Americans are ignorant of the world for a reason Jose. Same reason most Canadians think America is a post-apocalyptic wasteland filled with thieves and killers, or some kind of Jesusland of rednecks burning black churches.
The media.
Hollywood has been slagging the USA, its government, its companies and its people since the 1960’s. Its called The Big Lie. Make up some heinous falsehood and keep repeating it, the more gullible among the population will swallow it whole. Some communist sympathizers made up America The Bad back in the 1950’s, got a bunch of academic useful idiots on board, and these days its the unspoken basis of all news reporting.
Note the posters above who revealed CNN,CBC et al have completely ignored Kerry’s pooh pas at Davos. Gee, why would Americans be ignorant?
“Hi! I’m Jon Carry and I’m here to stick my nose up your butt while I stick my foot in my mouth. Can’t be done at the same time, you say! Well watch this. I’ll prove it: and I’ll do it where the whole world can see.”
Is dion taking lessons from kerry on foot and mouth disease.
Jose, I’ve seen earlier posts you’ve made and you’re either just plain stupid, or just so riddled with hatred for the United States that you can’t think straight. Jose, your comment hardly dignifys a response but it’s the kind of thing that you said that gives moral support to the enemy that wants to destroy us.
Americans can put a man on the moon, inventions and scientific achievments of all kinds, but damn, they are so ignorant. You and your fellow pond scum make me sick. Crawl under the rock from whence you came.
Ah, yes, the ol’ “chickenhawk” argument. It’s invalid on its face, at least in the USA. Let’s consult the US Constitution. Article I, Section 8, states in part, “The Congress shall have power — . . . to declare war, . . . to raise and support armies, . . . to provide and maintain a navy . . . ” Article I, Section 2, states the qualifications to be a member of the House of Representatives: “No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty-five years, and have been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.” Similarly, Article I, Section 3, states that “No person shall be a senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.” The Constitution does not state that “those members of Congress who have served in the military shall have the power to declare war”, nor does it state that “no person shall be a senator or representative who has not served in the military.” This is true even though many of those who drafted and debated the Constitution had fought in the Revolutionary War (George Washington presided over the Constitutional Convention, for example).
We need not stop there, however. I live very close to Onizuka Air Force base, close enough that members of the Air Force who serve there sometimes live in the same condominium complex as I. I bring them six-packs of good beer on Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Veterans’ Day as a token of my appreciation for their service. On one of those occasions, I asked a captain in the Air Force how he felt about civilians making decisions to send our armed forces into combat. He responded that that was no problem. He was there to serve, and was proud to do so. He was also nice enough to tell me that my support for him and his fellow servicemen meant a lot to him in an area where they received very little support from the populace (bear in mind that this is only thirty-five miles from San Francisco).
Kerry’s “international pariah”.
Pablo knows. His friend, Jose, is also praising the “international pariah”.
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After a taste of U.S., little appetite for home
Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 1/28/2007 | Pablo Bachelet
Asked what they could do back in their native Chile, the four scientists in their 30s talk about solving problems such as the occasional “red tide” poisonings that can hit the fishing industry, or improving the forestry and mining industries.
But they say it will be difficult to return home after completing their research programs at the National Institutes of Health, a dilemma common to scores of Latin American scientists studying in the United States.
Scarce private-sector jobs and limited teaching slots or well-equipped research laboratories in their home countries keep most young Latin American scientists in the United States….-
The notion that most American’s are ignorant about the rest of the world is hardly controversial. Although I can understand why pointing that fact out can drive some people up the wall.
What is the point of being knowledgeable about a disfunctional world mostly administered by leftards when being knowledgeable about what makes the U. S. of A. the most successful nation on earth is much more useful?
All the knowledge in the world won’t make one wise, as leftards continually demonstrate.
RE: WL Mackenzie Redux says ‘The US is now playing the global imperialist role like the Brits, Spanish, Dutch and French before them’-
Hardly. On what do you base such a statement? Go to wikipedia and look at the maps of those imperial empires. Also Japan and Italy and Germany and Russia and Belgium. They are pretty clear. Then look up American Empire and you will find a rather long debate on the meaning of the word and where it might possibly be applied. Prehaps you could clarify, how are you defining ‘imperial’? If it is the ‘spirit’ of Empire to which you are referring, than that does not compare to the real thing, such as the British or French or Dutch Empires.
-The Oxford English Dictionary gives three definitions of imperialism:
1)An imperial system of government; the rule of an emperor, esp. when despotic or arbitrary.
2)The principle or spirit of empire; advocacy of what are held to be imperial interests.
3)Used disparagingly.In Communist writings: the imperial system or policy of the Western powers. Used conversely in some Western writings: the imperial system or policy of the Communist powers-
Exposing ignorance sure does drive one up the wall. Kinda like me pointing out to you that it’s “Americans” not “American’s” eh Jose?
Re Jose’s statement that “The notion that most American’s [sic] are ignorant about the rest of the world is hardly controversial.”
I made a very interesting and important observation early in my life that has held me in good stead ever since.
I hitch hiked through Europe after I graduated from a Canadian university, and well knew the attitude of Europeans about Americans: They’re arrogant, they’re ignorant, they’re big mouths, and they’re know-nothings.
Imagine my surprise, when stopping off in hostels every night and finding hitch hiking partners to travel with to the next destination, to discover that Americans my age were far more interesting, far more cognizant of world affairs, and far superior travelling companions to most of the Canadians I met on the road.
I can say, almost categorically, that most of the Canadians I met were monolithically pro-Trudeau and anti-American for no good reasons. If you scratched the surface to see where their ideas came from, they got snippy and abusive: Moonbats in the making.
I began to avoid the Canadian-flagged backpackers like the plague, and actually took the Canadian flag off my backpack. I figured I’d travel as myself, and make it on my own, sans the Maple Leaf identifier.
Some of my best friends are Americans, and they are intelligent, thoughtful, resourcesful, fun to be with, vibrant, and can-do human beings. I’m sick of the knee-jerk Canadian anti-Americanism. It’s a lame excuse for stale, socialist, parasitic living.
If North America faces a crisis of catastrophic proportions, the moonbats aren’t going to be able to come to their children’s and grandchildren’s defence. They’ll be cowering in the corner yelling, “Where the H*ll are the U.S. Marines, Army, Navy, and Airforce?”
Your thinking needs a chiropractic re-adjustment, Jose.
Re Jose’s statement that “The notion that most American’s [sic] are ignorant about the rest of the world is hardly controversial.”
I made a very interesting and important observation early in my life that has held me in good stead ever since.
I hitch hiked through Europe after I graduated from a Canadian university, and well knew the attitude of Europeans about Americans: They’re arrogant, they’re ignorant, they’re big mouths, and they’re know-nothings.
Imagine my surprise, when stopping off in hostels every night and finding hitch hiking partners to travel with to the next destination, to discover that Americans my age were far more interesting, far more cognizant of world affairs, and far superior travelling companions to most of the Canadians I met on the road.
I can say, almost categorically, that most of the Canadians I met were monolithically pro-Trudeau and anti-American for no good reasons. If you scratched the surface to see where their ideas came from, they got snippy and abusive: moonbats in the making.
I began to avoid the Canadian-flagged backpackers like the plague, and actually took the Canadian flag off my backpack. I figured I’d travel as myself, and make it on my own, sans the smug Maple Leaf identifier.
Some of my best friends are Americans, and they are intelligent, thoughtful, resourceful, fun to be with, vibrant, and can-do human beings. I’m sick of the smug and arrogant knee-jerk anti-Americanism of far too many Canadians. It’s a giant projection onto our neighbours to the South about our own lame socialist, Nanny-state, and parasitic living.
If/when North America faces a crisis of catastrophic proportions, the moonbats aren’t going to be able to come to their children’s and grandchildren’s defence. They’ll be cowering in the corner yelling, “Where the H*ll are the U.S. Marines, Army, Navy, and Airforce?” Canadians couldn’t defend themselves out of a brown paper bag—and yet, we’re “far superior” to the “dumb, ignorant Americans.”
Think again, Jose.
Hating America is nothing new. The hate and jealousy has been around as long as America has been around. But since 9/11 it is worse. My theory is the ‘alpha dog’ was hurt and bleeding and the ‘pack’ turned. I expected it. The cries about how America has lost favor and is more hated since the aftermath of 9/11 were, IMO, inevitable, no matter what she did.
From an edited (by me) review of the book “Hating America”. -h/t DustmyBroom-
-In the eighteenth century, the American territory was considered wild and barbaric.
In the early to mid-nineteenth century, the American experiment in social equality was seen as a failed society.
With its growing strength and presence at the end of the nineteenth century leading up to World War II, U.S. democracy was feared as a threat to less democratic nations.
From the end of WWII through the end of the cold war, criticism of the U.S. shifted from its potential to its actual domination in world affairs.
And this latest stage encompasses a visceral reaction to American assertion of its politics, economics, and culture.-
I just want to take a minute to thank all of America’s Canadian friends.
When I first came up to SDA about 4 years ago, it was when that really vocal batch of anti-Americanism floated across the border.
I’ll admit, for a brief period we Americans were really stung by Canadian vitriol in a way that we would never have been hurt by someone else.
This was because most of us were pretty deluded, I guess, and we really thought that Canada was one of our greatest friends, and in fact we really didn’t make a big distinction from the point of view of thinking about Canadians.
So at first when we became aware of the anti-American feelings, we did in fact get our toes stepped on.
Fortunately, this did not last very long. Very quickly, the anti-Americanism became redundant, and we began to discount it as previously we discounted such sentiments from France.
And then, people like all of my good friends here on SDA began to really get into the blogging game and created are real, pro-American counter-force.
And I think that today most Americans who think about this kind of thing at all are aware of the fact that Canadian anti-Americanism originates from leftist voices in Canada and can be considered pretty much in the same thought process that we consider the howlings of the American left.
One of the things about Jose and his ilk that is so amusing (and today it has become rather amusing) is how utterly pathological they are.
You know, even a broken clock is right twice a day. And there is plenty to criticize about the United State while at the same time being able to find some redeeming characteristics.
I probably bitch about more things about the United States to my friends and my politicians in one day than the Canadian anti-American crowd does in a week.
It would be so enormously easy simply to read the Canadian press and post a blog about everything I didn’t like about Canada. But even if I did this, I would still have to single out so many things about Canada and the Canadian people that I really appreciate.
And this is what is missing from people like Jose and why their sentiment now has become amusing.
So anyway, let me take a moment just to say thank you, and extend my appreciation to all you good Canadian folks up there who apparently care about us as much as we care about you. As I’ve said many times, and I truly believe it, in the end we’re just a bunch of friends and extended relatives.
I just heard that Kerry said it but then he didn’t say it before he actually said it. Well, we all know Kerry don’t we?
Hey, Greg in Dallas: You’re welcome. It is a privilege and an honour to stand shoulder to shoulder with our American brothers and sisters at a crossroads in the history of the world.
This is a watershed moment for mankind, and I don’t stand with the let-the-Islamofascists-walk-all-over-us-because-we’re-such-nice-people-because-we’re-CANADIANS–and you’re not nice people because you’re Americans.
The Scripture says, “Without a vision the people perish.” The lefties in both of our countries have only one vision: that of their own, ME-FIRST, comfortable, live-happily-ever-after lives. They don’t understand that we have enemies who are intent on annihilating us; they don’t understand sacrifice until it hurts in order to overcome evil. All they understand is that if we pretend to have no enemies, our enemies–who they don’t believe exist–will leave us alone.
I like your motto: “In God we trust.” Canada’s is “Ad mare usque ad mare”–“[And He shall have dominion] from sea to sea.”
If we put them together, and stand together, we may yet have a worthwhile future to hand to our children and grandchildren. Like you say, GID, we are “just a bunch of friends and extended relatives.”
And I say, “Amen!” to that.
The leftys that continuously bitch at the Americans will be the first to come yelping with their tail between their legs should Canada be hit with a 9-11 type event. As they try to hide behind Stephen Harper’s apron strings they will still be the ones who say that we got hit because, in some way, we must have wronged those who would do that to us. What pathetic assholes.
I’ve always been amazed at the “Americans are bigots” line spouted by anti-American bigots.
They refuse to put into perspective what is happening (and happened) worldwide. America has its flaws, but to equivalentize it with the gross indecency that is going on in the world (young girls circumcised, tribal genocide carried out routinely in Rwanda and Sudan), is truly braindead.
Like one commentator noted, if these moonbats were threatened with death and rape (an everyday occurence in the enlightened lands of the Muslim world – yes the truth hurts), they would be the first demanding the Americans send in the airborne to save them.
John Kerry is an Islamofascist sycophant who has never uttered an original thought. He is truly the king of the moonbats, a serving state senator who supports anyone who is anti-Bush. This twit is so infected with Bushitis he sides with known killers who regularly shout “Death to America.”
I surely hope this finished him as a politician.
Amen, BATB, my sentiments exactly.
And, Greg in Dallas, thanks. You say, “So anyway, let me take a moment just to say thank you, and extend my appreciation to all you good Canadian folks up there who apparently care about us as much as we care about you.” I wish it were most of us, which it should be–maybe it is, but who’d know, due to the MSM–because it’s only under the protection of the US that we’ve managed to be spared our own 9/11. And managed to live the good life we do economically: without the US as the major receiver of our goods, we’d have a pretty insipid economy.
You’re most welcome, Greg in Dallas. God bless America!
Lynn “Jose, I’ve seen earlier posts you’ve made and you’re either just plain stupid, or just so riddled with hatred for the United States that you can’t think straight.”
Well I don’t hate the USA. Many Americans would agree with the statement I made.
I noticed a funny thing today. Kate posted on a liberal blog. A lot of people responded to her comments with impassioned rebuttals of their own. But no one insulted her.
Make you think?… didn’t think so.
“I noticed a funny thing today. Kate posted on a liberal blog. A lot of people responded to her comments with impassioned rebuttals of their own. But no one insulted her.
Make you think?… didn’t think so.”
Only a moron of your caliber can’t see the hate pointed at Kate on that site. Impassioned speech? Man, you do make me laugh. I had to dumb down just to try and get through those lame rebuttals. Now go scurry of to your lefty sites, adults are playing here.
A lot of people responded to her comments with impassioned rebuttals of their own. But no one insulted her.
Apparently words like “Koward Kate” and “flying monkey crowd” are now only “impassioned rebuttals”
Give them time. Someone will “drive home” their thoughtful rebutal by photoshopping me in a Hitler mustache.
Again.
ol hoss “Apparently words like “Koward Kate” and “flying monkey crowd” are now only “impassioned rebuttals”
I could have missed it but I just skimmed through the thread again but couldn’t find “Koward Kate”.
Jose people really get tired of your whinging just shut up and stay home you’ve nothing of substance to add to the conversation.
Ok what lib post did Kate venture too. I just gotta read that.
I have to say I marvel at President Bush’s Steel encased back-bone. To be as unwavering in his conviction to win the war under what must be monumental pressure to cave is, well, a marvel.
WL Mackenzie Redux:
The US is now playing the global imperialist role…
Well, go over there and stop them. Instead of you chickendoves hiding behind your keyboards screeching “dissent is patriotic”, and wasting your time making paper mache puppetheads of George Bush, go to Iraq, Afghanistan, and soon Iran, take up arms and stop these American imperialists.
Come on chickendoves. The terrorists can’t beat the US militarily, and need your help. A peace activist was killed in Baghdad a week ago, and Rachel Corrie gave her life fighting the enemy. Do these 2 girls have more guts than you chickendoves? Where’s your AK-47? The terrorists need you to fight the American military.
It’s frustrating trying to win a war that liberals do not want to fight. If we win this thing it will be with one hand tied behind our back, I’m sorry to say.
chickendoves? Chicken sh*t is a little closer to the truth.
JOHN kERRY STILL A MINDLESS DIM-BULB HE STILL DONT GET IT STILL AS CLUELES AS EVER A MINDLESS DUMB STUPID JACKASS
So… John Kerry talking with an Iranian reformist is bad, George W. Bush holding hands with a Saudi Wahhabist is okay?
Just checking to see if you guys are as stupid as your reputation…