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Showing Original Post only (View all)Robert Reich Believes It Is SoS John Kerry Sounding The War Drums of Syria. [View all]
From Robert Reich Facebook Page today.
The driving force behind the folly of bombing Syria is Secretary of State John Kerry. Im told Chuck Hegel has strong reservations, as do the Pentagons top generals. But Kerry has no reservations at all, and has convinced the President to stake much of his second-term presidency on it. Why? Its possible, of course, that Kerry honestly believes that a punitive military strike against Assad is necessary, and that the benefits of such a strike would outweigh the potential costs. But I suspect something else is going on. Kerry is an intelligent man, but he has a fatal flaw. He craves the limelight. He wants to be in the center of the action and attention. Over the years I heard again and again from his Senate colleagues that Kerry grandstanded and wanted all the credit, said things that would get him on the evening news, pushed too fast and too far in order to make his mark. Recently he seemed to be making progress getting the Israelis and Palestinians back to the table, but perhaps he sensed that the incipient talks would drag on forever, and needed a new cause.
Forty years ago John Kerry called for an end to the Vietnam War but in his public pronouncements this past week he has sounded eerily like Robert McNamara in that tragic time urging that America show resolve, that our credibility is at stake, that our enemies are watching, that we mustnt back down. These were not then, and they are not now, reasoned arguments; they are exhortations. Kerry is on the warpath. The President is ultimately responsible, of course, but I fear he is listening mainly to the loudest voice in the room. And that loud voice is channeling loud voices from America's past -- voices that have led us seriously awry.
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Robert Reich Believes It Is SoS John Kerry Sounding The War Drums of Syria. [View all]
rsmith6621
Sep 2013
OP
Me too. Perhaps. At the moment, I'm wondering if we really did, though. nt
silvershadow
Sep 2013
#23
One example that I can easily name is that Kerry wrote the bill that provided f
karynnj
Sep 2013
#56
The fact that Reich worked for Clinton and the strikes launched during his Presidency.
ProSense
Sep 2013
#14
Then you must agree that links about Clinton's foreign military adventures are utterly irrelevant.
rug
Sep 2013
#58
Not to mention - from other accounts Obama's senior National security staff was supposedly
karynnj
Sep 2013
#60
He got BOTOX...and has a lovely, rich wife...and he likes his lifestyle and Power,
KoKo
Sep 2013
#27
someone has gotten to Obama to talk him into this crackpots scheme.. I don't know who. But maybe it
Douglas Carpenter
Sep 2013
#8
Wow, Samantha Power called Hillary Clinton a 'monster' in 2008 so framing her as
Bluenorthwest
Sep 2013
#103
- partly true, but Bill Clinton disliked him enough to endorse someone else in the 2002 MA Governor
karynnj
Sep 2013
#72
That is ridiculous - Kerry has at all times shown Obama the respect that he deserves
karynnj
Sep 2013
#78
It doesn't matter who it is or what their progressive or Democratic credentials are.
totodeinhere
Sep 2013
#42
Well - a gossip monger might post that the President will swap his VP out for the SOS
karynnj
Sep 2013
#79
A lot of people were speculating about that at the time. There was a lot of speculation
totodeinhere
Sep 2013
#104
Could you please state what these dollar amounts are supposed to signify?
TroglodyteScholar
Sep 2013
#88