More from the Gift That Keeps On Giving

Read. Then shudder at how close we came to this guy making foreign policy decisions for the entire US. 
-He compares himself to Winston Churchill because he was invited to speak at the same college as Churchill.
-He equates his desire to protect his record of 4 months service in Viet Nam from the Swift Boat Veterans to Bush's need to protect the US from Islamic Fascism.
-He declares that the Iraq War has been a failed policy for years, which can only mean that he believes any war not won in a week or two, is a failure.
-He sets the groundwork for proclaiming his flip-flop on the war is a matter of statesman-like, Churchillian, strength.
-He equates his meeting last week with the Syrian president, a  leader whose nation is currently at war with our military forces in Iraq, with Nixon's diplomatic trip to China, and Reagan's visit with Michael Gorbachev.   US Senators, conducting pseudo foreign policy in opposition to the current US policy is a sign of weakness, and Iran and Syria are sure to understand that.  US Presidents, meeting with regimes hostile to the US as a show of strength and confidence, is a sign of strength.  Surely Kerry's meeting with Bashar is more like Briton's Chamberlain meeting with Hitler than it is with either of the two meetings he mentioned. 
Kerry's ego is certainly well earned.  He managed to turn an afternoon of Congressional testimony declaring all of us servicemen and women as inhumane killers into a lifetime political career (only possible in Massachusetts, by the way).  He's amassed a personal fortune through two marriages that any other gigolo would be proud of.  He used his four-month combat tour in Viet Nam to grab the nomination for president.  Kerry has a lifetime of turning mediocre into extraordinary, so it's not out of line to hear him declare himself the next Churchill/Nixon/Reagan because of his flip-flop on the Iraq War. 

Comments

[MissBirdlegs in AL]

We dodged that bullet, Thank God and the common sense of Americans!

[madconductor]

I haeven't seen so much BS in one article in a long time. Referring to his "flip-flopping" as "Barbed words can make for great politics" really does show that at least he's working the issue - he knows he has to do something about his flip-flopping. So he gonna show how flip-flopping equates to statesmanship - a jump of unrealistic proportions. Of course, he has the Washington Post to help him out - but then we know where they stand also.
And he totally misses the point about "changing positions" (his euphemism for flip-flopping) and the danger that it brings. More were killed in Vietnam when we bailed than had died during the war. And all we did was "change position" - from staying the course of appeasement to total abdication - anything but victory will do.
We are becoming soft - and we shall get much softer with wussies like jackass keery running around the world as an apologist for America. He doesn't speak for me and I resent him attempting to.