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Townhall
Burping
John Kerry
by
Katie Kieffer
Sep
16, 2013
John
Kerry burped. Excuse him. That’s how he does foreign policy. Don a
burping pad before asking him questions; you never know whether he
will spit out war or peace.
Last
Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry held a press conference. CBS
reporter Margaret Brennan asked Kerry how Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad could avoid a U.S. air strike on Syria.
MARGARET
BRENNAN: “…is there anything at this point that his government
could do or offer that would stop an attack?”
SECRETARY
KERRY: “Sure. He could turn over every single bit of his chemical
weapons to the international community in the next week. Turn it
over, all of it, without delay, and allow a full and total accounting
for that. But he isn’t about to do it, and it can’t be done,
obviously.”
It
was a burp. An off-the-cuff comment. Even Kerry’s body language
indicated that he was throwing out what he felt was a starry-eyed
option. Barely a week earlier, on August 30, the New York Times had
posted the headline: “Kerry Becomes Chief Advocate for U.S.
Attack.” At the end of August, Kerry began bullying Congress to
approve Obama’s desire for a military strike in Syria, which Kerry
promised would not be “war in the classic sense.” Now, in early
September, he was throwing out an offer for peace.
War
is war. There’s no such thing as a non-classic war unless you’re
talking about tug-of-war. The fact is, before Kerry’s little burp
about peace, Kerry and Obama were gung-ho to go to war for no reason
other than to help Obama save face on his off-the-cuff “red line”
he drew on Syria’s use of chemical weapons last summer:
“We
have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players
on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole
bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized.”
We
still do not have definitive evidence that President Assad authorized
chemical attacks on his own people, reports the Washington Times. But
when a few reports surfaced accusing Assad of doing so, Obama felt
like he had to save face on his red line comment...
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