Kerry to the Mideast In “Coming Days”

By Adam Sorensen | @adamsorensen | March 17, 2011 | +

With Clinton eying a first-term exit from State, the Senate Foreign Relations chair is making himself heard:

US Senator John Kerry said that US policy toward the Middle East needs a “readjustment” to reflect the new realities of the region, which is at a boiling point with mass uprisings.

“Too often over the past decade we have seen regimes in the region chiefly as bulwarks in the fight against terrorism, while looking away from abuses we find unconscionable,” Kerry said in a speech at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

“We can no longer view the Middle East solely through the lens of September 11. Now, we must view it through the lens of 2011,” said Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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allthingsinaname

“We can no longer view the Middle East solely through the lens of September 11. Now, we must view it through the lens of 2011,” said Kerry,”

Hmmmm……………..! Look at the GOP and tell me that again with a straight face.
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Fear is all we have!
newfreedomblog

So? Kerry as Secretary of State if Obamao gets re-elected in 2012? This is news?
afguy

How were we viewing the Middle East BEFORE September 11?
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Our problems over there started LONG BEFORE that date…
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How about let’s view the Middle East REALISTICALLY for once?
http://www.simonvinkenoog.nl/beeld/Yogi%20-%20Annelies%20Rigter.jpg yogi

Hehe, I’m sure he’ll give a good long speech to simmer down tensions.
nflfoghorn

Is he channeling his inner Jesse Jackson?
afguy

sorry, I’ll answer my own question…
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Pre-September 11 – viewed with benign contempt,a s a resource and area to be expolited for our own “interests”.
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Post-September 11 – scared sh*tless of “them”. But still there’s those “resources” to exploit…
allthingsinaname

“How about let’s view the Middle East REALISTICALLY for once?”
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But that wouldn’t be political! Who could score the points? We just can’t have it!
nflfoghorn

You were for Kerry before you were against him. Admit it.
nflfoghorn

Slightly OT: Whatever happened to Spo[o]b?
afguy

Not sure… I see him drop in from time-to-time to “tinkle” on the proceedings but nothing regular.
nflfoghorn

I would say that I miss him but I would be lying.
afguy

Oh, I miss him… like a nagging “urinary infection”, it just feels sooooo good when he’s finally “gone”…
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I had other “social afflictions” in mind but decided to clean it up for the Swamp…
http://tisias.wordpress.com tisias

Its not a stretch… Kerry was at the top of the list with Clinton right before Obama won the election and before he was inaugurated.
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In response to rusty’s statement, I think the point Adam is trying to get across is that ‘under the assumption’ that Obama is reelected, OR Sec. Clinton retires before the next election, Kerry may be the primary candidate.
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I wouldn’t make any guesses about who wins elections, and I doubt that anyone here is either.
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Although I can (possibly) admire his confidence that Obama will lose.
Exiled_At_Home (formerly Neo)

Again, Beng55 and RDW, have you no retorts?

http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2011/03/14/trouble-on-the-west-bank/
rdw56

Not sure why any retort is needed. Obama doesn’t have a bench and he’s downgraded Sec of State anyway with all off his special envoys. Lurch will have no say in when we get over 9/11 but if you want to know it won’t be until after radical islam gives up terror.

The most most instructive poll is Gallups annual polls on support for Israel or Palestine which was recently 63% to 17% which is 8% wider than GWBs last year. Obama’s attempt to punish Israel backfired badly. The fact is with each year the MSM loses even more control of the news. The story of the recent slaughter of jews has been well covered outside the MSM and only hardens anti-radical-islam opinions even more. Pearl Harbor is still marked each Dec 7th and it happened almost 70 years ago.

As far as Obama getting re-elected he has to be considered the favorite but I think he is in serious trouble. There is not going to be a Morning in America campaign in 2012 because Obama simply doesn’t believe in it. Right now he’s down sharply among independents and so many of his issues are unpopular. He’s not showing leadership on Libya, the deficit and there have been many stories of America in decline. Conservative writers quickly started comparing him to Jimmy Carter and now are saying he’s not doing as well. Watch gasoline and inflation.
rdw56

But still there’s those “resources” to exploit…

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Never quite understood how this Marxist concept of exploitation has survived so long. Exactly what resources are we exploiting from Palestine? Egypt? Jordan? Even if you want to go back to the 60′s when Big oil was supposedly exploiting the Sauds, they make billions more today. We s/b so lucky to have those old prices.
rdw56

How about let’s view the Middle East REALISTICALLY for once

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Isn’t that what Obama was doing? How did that work out?
Exiled_At_Home (formerly Neo)

I have no idea why I included you in the roundtable. I should have known you would fall back on rubbish such as polls and partisan inanity. The question of Palestine has nothing to do with Obama or any other American leader, nor does it matter what the ill-informed American public’s perceptions are. All that matters is truth and justice, concepts shockingly foreign to you, rdw.