March 06, 2006

John Kerry Wants to Build Power of U.N.—But Never Wants to Build the Power of the U.S.

Kerry: America must bolster UN, 'end the empire of oil':

LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland (AP) - Sen. John Kerry said Sunday that the United States must rebuild the power of the United Nations and help "end the empire of oil" to defeat terrorism.

Has Kerry ever said he wanted to "bolster the U.S."? It seems to me the meaning of everything he says is that he believes the U.S. can't be trusted, and that he wants to restrain and weaken the U.S. The next paragraphs of this article are a case in point:

Kerry, who lost to President Bush in the 2004 presidential election, avoided explicit criticism of the U.S. administration during a wide-ranging speech on the global dynamics of terrorism. But he said Bush's policy of imposing democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan risked looking like a crusade in Arab, Muslim eyes.

"If it is seen as the result of an army marching through Muslim lands, it will fail," Kerry told an audience at the University of Ulster in Londonderry, the second-largest city in Northern Ireland.

Instead of helping the U.S. by saying that what the U.S. is doing is not a "crusade," Kerry helps the terrorists by suggesting that what the U.S. is doing could be seen as a "crusade." He makes no effort to deny that that would be a way to correct way see it. Evidently Kerry feels his mission in political life is to weaken the U.S. He seems to believe that's what his constituents want. This goes with a recent post in which I asked, "Is it true that Dems don't trust America?"

In the same speech, he preposterously blames the U.S. for the backwardness of the mid-east:

Kerry said developing effective replacements for oil-based fuels also was key. The West's appetite for petroleum from the Middle East "has frustrated every impulse towards modernization of the region, while giving its regimes the resources to hold onto power. The international community of democratic nations cannot afford to continue funding both sides of the war on terror. We must end the empire of oil."

Isn't that something? By flooding the region with billions of dollars, by buying what the mid-east is selling, according to Kerry, the West has "frustrated every impulse towards modernization of the region." He blames American for the behavior of the region's Saddams (while of course famously voting against efforts by America to remove Saddam).

There appears to be no question that Kerry does not trust America and feels his mission in life is to weaken our country.

Inevitably, in attacking the U.S., Kerry helps our enemies.

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Categories: Counter-Terrorism, Energy Independence, Iraq, Politics & Government

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