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Kerry calls Times reporter with nothing to say
As has been pointed out here many times, Kerry’s sole answer to every foreign policy and national defense question is to declare that it should be referred to the UN. Of course, the Untalented Mr. Kerry never says what the UN should actually do about a given problem, but always insists that handing it off to the UN is the “right” way to handle it. Over and over, he disdainfully denounces his Republican opponents on foreign policy matters, yet has nothing of his own to offer in that area except the empty shell of UN proceduralism. This tendency of his has gone so far that on his own initiative Kerry telephoned New York Times reporter David Sanger this past Sunday to complain angrily about Bush’s handling of the North Korean nuclear issue. As Sanger writes in his news story about the conversation, “When Mr. Kerry was pressed about how he would handle the threat of a North Korean nuclear test if he was in the Oval Office, he declined to be prescriptive, other than to say that the issue would probably have to be taken to the United Nations Security Council.”
In 1988, in response to a reporter’s question about his foreign policy, Dukakis smugly declared that his foreign policy would be to “obey international law,” an empty, procedural answer that the robotic technocrat evidently thought placed him above all grubby concerns about the national interest. Not only did he have no foreign policy, he disdained the very idea of having one. The Washington Post—very liberal, of course, but not as extreme as the Times—accordingly declined to endorse his candidacy. I repeat my prediction from earlier this year that the Post will decline to endorse Kerry for the same reason. Email entry |