Category: John Kerry

According to the Boston Globe, John Kerry is occupied doing what he does best – conduct US foreign policy discussion when he has no authority to do so. He did it in 1971 with the communist North Vietnamese delegation to the Paris Peace Talks. Now he’s trying to resuscitate the dying Iran deal, the crowning foreign policy achievement of the Obama Administration.

With the Iran deal facing its gravest threat since it was signed in 2015, Kerry has been on an aggressive yet stealthy mission to preserve it, using his deep lists of contacts gleaned during his time as the top US diplomat to try to apply pressure on the Trump administration from the outside. President Trump, who has consistently criticized the pact and campaigned in 2016 on scuttling it, faces a May 12 deadline to decide whether to continue abiding by its terms.

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“It is unusual for a former secretary of state to engage in foreign policy like this, as an actual diplomat and quasi-negotiator,” said Michael O’Hanlon, a foreign policy expert at the Brookings Institution. “Of course, former secretaries of state often remain quite engaged with foreign leaders, as they should, but it’s rarely so issue-specific, especially when they have just left office.”

Kerry declined to be interviewed for this story. The quiet lobbying campaign — by him and others — is being conducted below the radar because he and his allies believe a high-profile defense of the deal by prominent Democrats would only backfire and provoke Trump, making it more likely the president would pull the United States out of the deal.

While it may be unusual for former secretaries of state, it’s certainly not unusual for John Kerry. He stuck his nose in the Syria business while the Bush Administration had their own policy dealing with Assad, he did the same meddling in Afghanistan with the Karzai cartel.

The Trump Administration is prepared to reimpose sanctions on Iran if they are found to be in violation of the agreement, and Kerry would prefer that we just ignore the fact that Iran hasn’t abandoned their nuclear weapons program, just to keep his agreement alive and preserve the appearance of success, disregarding the national security implications.

Failed presidential candidate and architect of the failed Iran nuclear deal, John Kerry is planning to run for president again in 2020 reports The Hill, while he gave advice to the Palestinians;

According to the report, Kerry told Palestinian officials that he was strongly considering a run in 2020 and hinted that Trump will likely not be in office much longer in strongly worded conversation Wednesday.

“Hold on and be strong,” Kerry told the interviewer, a close associate of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, adding that he should tell Abbas “that he should stay strong in his spirit and play for time, that he will not break and will not yield to President [Donald] Trump’s demands.”

According to Fox News, Kerry did his best to undermine the Trump Adminstration’s efforts in the region.

According to the report, Kerry used derogatory terms when referring to Trump, and offered to help the Palestinians create an alternative peace initiative. He reportedly asked Abbas not to attack the U.S. or the Trump administration, but rather focus attacks on the president himself.

I hope Kerry runs again in 2020. I can’t think of a better Democrat candidate. I might even cross the aisle to vote for him in the primaries.

Kerry sneaked into the Paris Peace Accords talks with the North Vietnamese in an attempt to derail US negotiations.

He met with Bashar Assad in 2009 and said of the Syrian president “Syria is an essential player in bringing peace and stability to the region.” Right before their civil war which gave rise to ISIS.

He supported the Obama Administration’s plane loads of cash delivered to the mullahs of Iran that they’ve used to fund terrorism worldwide.

He engineered the loosening of the embargo against Cuba which tightened the communist’s grip on the throats of common Cubans.

Now he’s undermining efforts with Palestinians.

Just think of all the good he can do from the White House.

The folks at some college somewhere by the name of Yale wanted to let us know that some horse-faced guy by the name of John Kerry was speaking at their little community college the other day and he expressed some regret;

Former Secretary of State John Kerry visited Yale University on April 27 to kick off the “Kerry Initiative,” slated to launch at the university this fall.

More than 450 students, staff, and faculty attended the “Conversation with Secretary Kerry” April 27 in Yale Law School’s Levinson Auditorium. Professor James Levinsohn, director of Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, moderated the conversation, after which Kerry took questions from attendees.

“There is never going to be a military solution to what is happening in Syria,” said Kerry in response to a student question about what the U.S. can do to end the conflict. He talked about the negotiations with Russian and Syrian leaders during the Obama administration and said that accountability is key.

“The greatest frustration I left with this administration was the sense of unfinished business there because I thought we had a better hand to play. And I wish we had played it full and early,” Kerry said.

Actually, mostly I’m glad that he’ll be sequestered at this little community college somewhere in New England and not in the Senate – probably President Obama’s greatest contribution to the body politic.

Maybe there was a chance that the Syrian civil war could be settled without a military in the early days, but the US sat on the sidelines so long, that there is no other way out now.

I’d like to know how Kerry thought he could negotiate ISIS out of existence. Probably similar to the Iran treaty, he’d send them a pallet-load of cash to continue being the way they are.

I’m sure that if the Yalians knew how Obama and Kerry caused the Syrian civil war and brought ISIS to the world stage, they’d have to loudly protest his employment there and throw bike racks through local business’ windows.

Prime Minister Theresa May of the UK is clearly siding with the in-coming Trump Administration on the subject of Israel and their West Bank and Jerusalem settlements, according to Reuters which reports that May is “scolding” John Kerry for Kerry’s description of Netanyahu’s coalition as “the most right-wing in Israeli history, with an agenda driven by its most extreme elements.” He forgot to add his favorite comparison that they are “reminiscent of Jenjis Khan”.

Britain scolded U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for describing the Israeli government as the most right-wing in Israeli history, a move that aligns Prime Minister Theresa May more closely with President-elect Donald Trump.

After U.S. President Barack Obama enraged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by refusing to veto a UN Security Council resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlement building, Kerry’s public rebuke of Israel has unsettled some allies such as Britain.

So much for restoring our relationships with the world community – we seem to be angering our traditional allies faster than we’re angering our traditional enemies. The Daily Mail calls it a “War of Words”;

The war of words between Theresa May and Barack Obama’s administration continued today as the US State Department expressed ‘surprise’ at her strong rebuke of John Kerry’s Israel speech.

A spokesperson for Mr Kerry pointed out that nine other major nations had backed his condemnation of Mr Netanyahu over his construction of settlements in the West Bank while the UK PM had aligned herself with Donald Trump’s response.

The criticism of Israel by this administration is kinda like prying the “W”s off all of the White House keyboards, only much, much worse.

John Kerry gave a farewell speech at the State Department in which he defended the Obama Administration’s abstention in a vote to condemn Jewish settlements. From Fox News;

During a farewell speech at the State Department, Kerry explained the U.N. decision in his most extensive terms yet. He said it was about preserving the two-state solution, which he called the only way to a “just and lasting peace.”

“That future is now in jeopardy,” he warned.

A U.S. abstention on the U.N. Security Council resolution calling Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem a violation of international law allowed the measure to pass Friday – and sent the already-turbulent relationship between the Obama and Netanyahu governments into its rockiest stretch yet.

I’d remind Mr Kerry that the Palestinians had a shot at a two-state solution in 2000, the best shot they ever had, and they rejected it. They’ll never accept any solution that includes the continued existence of the State of Israel.

But thanks for reminding us of the bullet we dodged in the 2004 election. And thanks for the opportunity to show this picture to my audience one last time.