Kerry Officially Gets Foreign Relations Post
Boston.com
By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff
WASHINGTON — Senator John F. Kerry was named chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee today, pledging to use his stewardship of the influential panel to strengthen American interests in Afghanistan and Pakistan, help end the war in Iraq, and craft solutions to the climate change crisis.
The Massachusetts Democrat is already on an extended tour of trouble spots that will likely consume the foreign policy attention of President-elect Barack Obama. Kerry met today with leaders in Pakistan and India, trying to ease tensions between the two nuclear powers over the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai.
He next goes to Afghanistan, where Obama wants to deploy thousands of additional troops to fight the war on terror. The first stop on Kerry’s itinerary, which began over the weekend, was the Republic of Georgia, the front line in Russia’s more aggressive stance against the West. Sunday, he and Obama talked about a global warming conference in Poland that Kerry attended.
“We have a big agenda ahead of us, just as our country faces big challenges across the globe,” Kerry said in a statement from Islamabad.
Kerry, who has served on the committee for 24 years and first came to public notice when he testified before the panel in opposition to the Vietnam War, was elevated to the chairmanship by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid after he lost out to Hillary Clinton to be Obama’s secretary of state.
Kerry is set to take over for the outgoing chairman, Vice President-elect Joe Biden, at a crucial time. Aides said the stops on his foreign trip highlight some of the core issues he will have to deal.
Wild Thing’s comment………
Unfreakinbelievable !
Obama is throwing shoes at our troops picking Kerry for this job.
I bet he’ll look up his old VC friends from Paris (Hey, look at me now!).
Kerry will be loved by our adveraries as he trashes America. The damage that Kerry does will probably cost America for decades.
You have to worry about what kind of climate treaties that Kerry will commit America to and what it will cost us economically. We are going to soon be adding the Third World to our bailout list.
Blood of Americans for the cause of Communism but not one drop of ketchup from Nguyễn Tất Thành số một của con trai, for the United States.(Ho Chi minh’s #1 son) The ketchup gigolo!!!
WT, you forgot to remind everyone that John Kerry served in Vietnam and ‘earned’ three Purple Hearts.
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People sometimes ponder how bad things can get. John Kerry becoming Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is a new low level of bad.
Its unbelievable they would put him in charge of anything so important. This asshole should be burning latrenes.
Lurch Kerry in foreign relations with Hanoi Jane and the NVC, eh? Cousin It and Thing and Ted Turner will be his ANALysts too Wild Thing! Mao-Se Tung said something like America will fall without communists having to fire one shot? The NVC now has CAIR and the ACLU and NAACP in their corner… so sickening Bear Nation!
Kerry is a true DinkyDau
Dinky Dau Kerry………….hahahahahaha
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Tom, oh you are so right, and he is going to be going all over telling people….Hello I am John Kerry, I was in Vietnam you know.
Jack, DITTO that for sure!
Les, LOL oh that’s right. hahaha Thank you Les, heh heh
Mark, he sure should, and in a third world jail that would make me happy. In a dungeon.
Darth isn’t that the truth… yes it sure is sickening.
cuchieddie, LOL oh that is just sooooooo perfect.
LMAO yessssss
“Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung.” Abraham Lincoln
If people insist that b.o. is so much like the Founding Fathers or other great Americans, then they should know what their TRUE views were then maybe they would have a very diffeerent opinion of b.o.
“A communist is someone that reads marx and lenin, an Anti-communist is someone who UNDERSTANDS marx and lenin.” The Great Ronald Reagan.
JohnE PFC U.S. Army, thanks for the quotes, those are always good and say exactly what needs to be said and in what Lincoln said not only says how it is but also what should be done to any traitor to our country including elected officials.
We have let people stay free that have been traitors to our country and that in itself is shameful and we are paying the price as a Nation.