President Kerry meets with Syrian dictator...hey, wait just a damn minute...!
Would somebody please tell John Kerry that he lost the freaking election?
Former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry met Saturday with Syria's president [heh] and said he was hopeful that strained U.S.-Syrian relations could be improved, provided Washington seized "a moment of opportunity" in the Middle East.
Why we should want, much less try, to "improve relations" with a regime that is waging war against us in Iraq is anybody's guess. Kind of reminds me of calls for "improved relations" with Nazi Germany by British and French commentators during the "sitzkrieg" of 1939-1940. And we all know what that "sitzing" accomplished, don't we?
More to the point, what the hell does John Kerry think he's doing by freelancing his own personal foreign policy as if he actually represents the United States? Who authorized him to meet with any foreign leader, much less an enemy? He needs to windsurf his ass back to the Senate back bench where he belongs, and keep his nose out of areas where he doesn't.
You have to love the stomach-turning ending the AP appended to this "story":
After Kerry left the Foreign Ministry on Saturday, 13-year-old Mustafa al-Nabulsi approached him with a drawing of the senator as a soldier in his Vietnam days.
"You have made me much more important than I was, though. You made me a general," Kerry said.
"I wish you were the president," al-Nabulsi said.
"Thank you very much. So do I," Kerry said.
I heartily agree - I wish Kerry were president of Syria as well. That way Damascus would lose all stomach for fighting and would quit Iraq immediately.
Go for it, Senator. It might be a race you can actually win.
Former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry met Saturday with Syria's president [heh] and said he was hopeful that strained U.S.-Syrian relations could be improved, provided Washington seized "a moment of opportunity" in the Middle East.
Why we should want, much less try, to "improve relations" with a regime that is waging war against us in Iraq is anybody's guess. Kind of reminds me of calls for "improved relations" with Nazi Germany by British and French commentators during the "sitzkrieg" of 1939-1940. And we all know what that "sitzing" accomplished, don't we?
More to the point, what the hell does John Kerry think he's doing by freelancing his own personal foreign policy as if he actually represents the United States? Who authorized him to meet with any foreign leader, much less an enemy? He needs to windsurf his ass back to the Senate back bench where he belongs, and keep his nose out of areas where he doesn't.
You have to love the stomach-turning ending the AP appended to this "story":
After Kerry left the Foreign Ministry on Saturday, 13-year-old Mustafa al-Nabulsi approached him with a drawing of the senator as a soldier in his Vietnam days.
"You have made me much more important than I was, though. You made me a general," Kerry said.
"I wish you were the president," al-Nabulsi said.
"Thank you very much. So do I," Kerry said.
I heartily agree - I wish Kerry were president of Syria as well. That way Damascus would lose all stomach for fighting and would quit Iraq immediately.
Go for it, Senator. It might be a race you can actually win.
posted by JASmius at 8:40 PM
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