FROM TRAITOR TO SENATOR, AND NOW SECRETARY OF STATE?
Well, now that Susan Rice has officially taken herself out of the running for Secretary of State, there have been
multiple reports circulating that Barry "Almighty" will, instead , nominate John Kerry-Heinz, who I believe spent a very brief, yet very personally rewarding, time in Vietnam to be his next Secretary of State. Unfortunately for us, if that does happen, it does not bode well for any improvement in our foreign policy. And while I’m quite sure that we all know this has long been a wetdream of Kerry-Heinz, it’s also worth remembering the praise that the Democrat senator has in the past heaped on that murdering thug and Syrian, President Bashar Assad. Which is especially noteworthy since dealing with Assad’s crumbling regime and the militant Islamists who threaten it, will very likely be the top item on his foreign policy agenda if he takes office.
It wasn’t all that long ago that Kerry-Heinz made repeated pilgrimages to Syria, meeting with Assad five times between 2009 and 2011. And it was just last year that Kerry-Heinz famously used the adjective "generous" in his description of Assad. And as the Wall Street Journal’s Bret Stephens recalled in a
column this past summer: "On March 16, 2011—the day after the first mass demonstration against the regime, John Kerry said Assad was a man of his word who had been "very generous with me." He added that under Assad "Syria will move; Syria will change as it embraces a legitimate relationship with the United States." This is the man who might be our next secretary of state." Yup, and with that I think it quite safe to say that the spirit of Neville Chamberlain remains alive and well and will, apparently, now be living in John Kerry-Heinz.
And then as Michael Rubin recently
wrote in Commentary Magazine, Kerry’s staffers described "their collective cringe when, after a motorcycle ride with Bashar al-Assad, he returned to Washington referring to Bashar as ‘my dear friend.’ Jim Geraghty of the National Review that "as recently as February 2010, Kerry was telling Middle Eastern leaders that he believed Israel should return the Golan Heights to Syria." Now imagine, if you will, the very precarious situation Israel would be facing today if it had actually heeded the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman’s advice. The strategic plateau overlooking all of northern Israel might today be on the verge of falling into the hands of Syrian homegrown terrorists and imported Al-Qaeda members. And now we face the very real possibility that this moron may very well be our next Secretary of State. God help us!
Nothing makes the point better that Kerry-Heinz is unfit to be Secretary of State that the fact that he clearly believed Assad was honest and a force for stability. The National Review quoted a WikiLeaks document which revealed Kerry-Heinz had told the emir of Qatar in November 2010, "Assad is a man who ‘wants to change’ and that Israel should cede the Golan Heights to the Syrians ‘at some point.’" The National Review
detailed more about Kerry-Heinz’s positive impression of Assad: "After a "long and comprehensive" meeting with Assad in April of that year, Kerry described it as "a very positive discussion." A month later, Kerry was back in Syria. His spokesman, insisting that "Syria can play a critical role in bringing peace and stability if it makes the strategic decision to do so," asserted that Kerry-Heinz had "emerged as one of the primary American interlocutors with the Syrian government."
Before Kerry-Heinz took the stage at the Democratic National Convention in September, the Washington Free Beacon in an article titled
"An Affair to Remember: John Kerry Hearts Bashar al-Assad" called Kerry-Heinz the Syrian dictator’s "highest-ranking apologist in American politics": "Yet for all his admiration, his numerous trips to Damascus, his many public words of praise for Assad, his insistence over many years that the butcher of Damascus is a man of peace who seeks rapprochement with Israel and the United States, Assad has never repaid Kerry’s generosity with reforms. Kerry thwarted efforts during the Bush administration to diplomatically isolate Syria after the administration’s own efforts to engage the regime ended in failure in 2003. Kerry served as the Obama administration’s envoy to Assad, leading a delegation to Syria just days after Obama’s inauguration. There he listened to Bashar Assad lecture him that Washington must "move away from a policy based on dictating decisions.""
The Beacon also pointed out that even the Washington Post referred to Kerry-Heinz as one of Assad’s
"prominent admirers" in the United States. This, despite the fact that Assad has been a key backer of the terrorist group Hezbollah and that his regime possesses
one of the world’s largest stocks of chemical weapons, including the nerve agents sarin and VX. Already the Twitterverse is chiming in, with London-based Syrian broadcaster Rana Kabani posting: "Remember when he [Kerry] pontificated that genocidal maniac was a reforming kinda guy?" Jonathan Schanzer, Middle East scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies also tweeted about the news of Kerry-Heinz’s upcoming nomination, saying: "Assad cheers from Syria." And I’m sure that he does! After all, how often is it that a ruthless dictator has as being his champion a U.S. Senator and perspective Secretary of State?
If Kerry-Heinz is confirmed as Secretary of State, there are questions that remain. For instance, what words will he use to describe Assad now that
nearly 40,000 have been killed in the country’s 21-month conflict? And, will Kerry-Heinz continue to pressure Israel to give up the Golan Heights? So it is then that American foreign policy, when the baton is passed from Hitlery to Kerry-Heinz, will continue in the same mindless and haphazard fashion that is has for the last four years. America willingly continues to play less and less of a significant leadership role in the important world events that could, potentially, effect the stability of the entire globe. Leadership coming from American has essentially been nonexistent. And the natural result of that, despite the ramblings of Barry "Almighty," will be a world that has a very good chance of descending further into what will be a catastrophic level of chaos. And Kerry-Heinz will be hopelessly in over his head.
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