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From Max Boot:
It did not matter to Kerry that the U.N. Security Council had voted unanimously to authorize military action to free Kuwait; at that point, isolationism was more important to him than multilateralism.
So Kerry opposed military action by a Republican President, even though the U.N. supported it. But he supported all military actions by a Democratic President:
Kerry changed his tune with Clinton’s election in 1992. He supported all of Clinton’s military actions in Bosnia, Haiti, Iraq and Kosovo although these were manifestly wars of choice, not necessity.
Max concludes:
This muddle raises the question of whether Kerry has a worldview, or whether he merely goes wherever the political winds blow.
In his acceptance speech Kerry claimed to be “complex”:
Now I know there are those who criticize me for seeing complexities—and I do…
Kerry is not “complex”; he merely has no consistent beliefs on any subject. Flip-flopping, contradicting himself within individual speeches, misstatements of fact… secret plans… this is what he is offering the nation at this time.
