While the United States may not have a role in stopping this latest attempt by the Muslim population to terrorize the Jews, we do have an interest in what we associate with. John F. Kerry, that most dishonorable of men, has once again taken point in helping to bring shame on his country.
On Monday, some Democratic members of Congress and a united front of major Jewish organizations expressed outrage over the imminent prospect that the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) would vote to declare Jerusalem’s Western Wall to be a part of the al-Aqsa mosque.... The resolution also included a laundry list of anti-Israel measures including condemnations of Israeli self-defense against terrorist attacks as well as of the Jewish presence in Jerusalem....The article, which declares in its headline "the end of American honor," "declares the Western Wall to be an integral part of the al-Aqsa mosque called the 'al-Buraq Plaza' after the Prophet Muhammad’s winged horse that carried him on a night journey described in the Quran."
[O]n the same day that some Americans were voicing outrage about what the UN agency was doing, the nation’s chief diplomat was at the group’s Paris headquarters to speak to that same executive council with a very different agenda. On Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry came to UNESCO hat in hand, praising the group and begging for the U.S. to be re-elected to the group’s executive board while not even mentioning the resolution that it would soon pass.
Kerry’s humiliating speech was not without a strategic purpose. But it also reflected the Obama administration’s ideological commitment to the United Nations.
American honor is not dead, but the American administration is certainly without it. Nothing could make that clearer than the appointment of John Kerry to the high office of Secretary of State. It is a dark period in our history.
That's not Kerry's only perfidy.
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Eric Hines
Armed serfs can get uppity and disrupt the program. It is very annoying.
ReplyDeleteThese anti-gun people are starting to worry me. It is the knowledge they are not stupid people, they know well the homicide rate has dropped precipitously over the last 30 years, concurrent with gun ownership expanding. Therefore, their ostensible reasons for curtailing firearms ownership is a lie.
Yet they seem ever more vociferous. Therefore, what, exactly, do they plan to do to us once we are disarmed? Will they show the mercy they accord the unborn innocents? It could well be, I suppose, that they cannot grasp the potential repercussions, in the same manner they seem to be ever ignorant of the law of diminishing returns, or the law of unintended consequences. Perhaps they think the perennial respect for law shown by their political opponents will last no matter what the provocation. Is that not what Kerry implies? That active response to threats is somehow verboten? Wonder if he would have objected to the Warsaw uprising? "Those Jews should have taken their concerns to the appropriate authorities."
they know well the homicide rate has dropped precipitously over the last 30 years, concurrent with gun ownership expanding.
ReplyDeleteThey don't. Almost universally, if you present this fact to them, one of two responses can be expected. Disbelief or crediting the drop to gun control. "Sure there are more guns, but thanks to background checks, they're only in the right hands" (nevermind the actual facts of the matter). But I think you'll find more believe that gun violence is worse than ever. Mind you, they'll not point to Chicago, Detroit, or Baltimore as evidence of this claim, but "mass shootings" like Aurora, UCC, and Sandy Hook. Expect to hear phrases like "there were never as many of these as when WE were kids" or "the violence keeps getting worse". No, they're about the same as they ever were, but what used to be merely local news of a tragedy is now national news, because the twenty-four hour news cycle demands fodder for consumption. And that's ignoring the media's propensity to push stories that feed their agenda.
they cannot grasp the potential repercussions, in the same manner they seem to be ever ignorant of the law of diminishing returns, or the law of unintended consequences.
This. They seem to live in this bubble where only good things come of their good intentions, and incidental harm (when they actually manage to acknowledge it) is written off as "worth the cost" or "unavoidable".
Perhaps they think the perennial respect for law shown by their political opponents will last no matter what the provocation.
I think this goes without saying. I can't tell you how many liberals I know will quote their favorite SCOTUS cases (like Roe v Wade, and the gay marriage and ACA cases) as immutable case law "the law of the land" and declare stare decisis as holy writ. But when you mention the Heller decision affirming the 2nd Amendment is a personal right or the Citizens United decision, they can't WAIT to tell you about how that's a travesty of justice that they'll get overturned. Magical thinking is magical.
And finally, I don't think Kerry actually thinks much of anything about the Jews. Or at the very least, not the value of their lives as human beings.
Democrats run the benefits of a parliamentary system but with the winner take all powers of a US Presidency. It's like they cheat or something.
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