John Kerry, Obama’s Secretary of State after Hillary, is a notoriously liberal Democrat, well known for the fraudulent tale tossing his medals over the fence at the Capitol after his return from Vietnam. He lied about in 1971 and kept the lie going as best he could until his run for president in 2004. That’s a long time to maintain a lie. So when he talks, we should be suspicious. That’s why it’s important to read between the lines of anything he says. Happily for us he’s just not that bright so it ain’t hard.
Mr. Kerry published an op-ed in The New York Times the other day lamenting orange man bad at Davos. He was appropriately horrified at the boor from Queens giving the assembled swells their comeuppance. But what he was most horrified at was Trump’s dealings vis-a-vis Greenland.
In the piece “We’ll Miss Alliances When They’re Gone” Mr. Kerry begins earnestly enough, so earnestly I almost bailed, as it seemed so utterly predictable. Here are the opening ‘graphs:
It’s easy to excuse the global sighs of relief after an apparently successful easing of the Greenland crisis — a crisis entirely of President Trump’s making. But, as Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada declared in Davos, Switzerland, last week, “We are in the midst of a rupture.”
This was true even before the Greenland debacle. A flimsy, status-quo-preserving framework on Greenland cannot erase a year of close calls and 11th-hour diplomatic consultations that have eroded our precious global relationships — connections we can’t rebuild as easily as Mr. Trump has dissolved them.
But we must reconstruct them. Americans need to know why even the most powerful nation on Earth is strongest when it has many like-minded friends.
There are the “sighs” and the mention of a “rupture,” “debacle” “flimsy”, “close calls,” “11th hour,” “eroded,” “precious global relationships,” “dissolved,” and “like-minded friends.”
My goodness it sounds serious, doesn’t it? No doubt you thought what I thought: that Mr. Kerry was lamenting the boar from Queens’ global stomping of expensively coiffed heads, but no. There was one more paragraph of hand-wringing then the dim-witted Kerry named the very first thing on his mind when he thinks of a “rupture” with our “like-minded friends.” (Bold added.)
Mr. Trump argues that maintaining America’s friendships in a broad, rules-based international order unfairly taxes the United States. Yet NATO has been a 76-year-old boon for American military manufacturers, including those who build the F-35 fighter jets that about 15 NATO countries use or plan to use, along with patriot missiles, drones, helicopters and radar systems. European countries buy about 35 percent of America’s global arms exports, making Europe our commercial military enterprises’ largest regional customer.
Military. Industrial. Complex.
Keep those dollars flowing.
Kerry then goes on to lament what he regards as Trump’s “game of geopolitical chicken that alienates the largest [non-military] foreign investor in our country” but like I said, Kerry ain’t too bright. He got so blinded by his own handkerchief over his eyes on his rich wife’s fainting couch that he forgot something: we be it. There is literally no one else on the planet who can provide the vast array of armaments and non-military commerce that we can.
Even if Europe decided that they can actually provide 100% of their own defense, who are they going to buy from?
Duh. Us.
And even if every European leader was throwing bourbon glasses in the fireplace and cursing Trump’s name as the flames shot up, who else are they going to invest in who is going to give them a bigger bang for their buck?
Duh. Us.
What John Kerry can’t recognize, because his ideological blinders simply won’t let him see it, is that this is what power looks like. Trump is unafraid of it and he is flexing it. We haven’t had a president do that in… well, since Reagan stared down the Soviets.
Kerry then goes on to bring up Putin, because he couldn’t help himself, and again, he’s stupid. (Bold added.)
America needs relationships to tackle a wide range of big global issues, too. Artificial intelligence has enormous potential but needs international guardrails so madmen do not use it for malign purposes. Individual nations going it alone cannot address challenges such as disease, climate change, energy security, critical mineral supply, migration flows or Russian and Chinese expansionism.
This long-faced crank is so dim he brought himself right back to Greenland and didn’t even realize it. It’s precisely because of “Russian and Chinese expansionism” that Trump wants to secure American control over Greenland!
The moron goes on:
Republican and Democratic presidents have worked hard over the post-World War II decades to shed the image of an imperialist power. Now America is sending messages about seeking a 21st-century empire that stretches from Greenland to South America.
Yes, John. That’s called the Monroe Doctrine. Surely they had a paper on it at State when you were there. Now we call it the Donroe Doctrine. And stop worrying about your Raytheon stock, big guy. It’ll do just fine.
Good grief.