There is such a comic opera feel to all this, it’s a shame that Gilbert and Sullivan aren’t around. The U.S. is forking over another $5 billion to fight against “radical extremists” — that is, $5 billion to fight against a foe that U.S. officials are afraid to name, and officially forbidden to name. Meanwhile, the U.S. has for years now given billions to Pakistan to fight these shadowy “radical extremists,” only for the Pakistani government (which also affected high dudgeon at the killing of Osama bin Laden) to funnel a good bit of that money to those very same “extremists” — with no consequences from the U.S., of course. John Kerry is the very model of a modern Secretary of State.
Also, if al Qaeda is “on the ropes” and all that, why do we need to spend another $5 billion to fight them?
“Kerry: US to start fund to fight terrorism,” Associated Press, May 28 2014:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry says the United States will begin a $5 billion “terrorism partnership fund” to help other countries push back against radical extremists.
Kerry says President Barack Obama will announce the fund during his commencement speech Wednesday at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York….
Kerry says that plan will allow the U.S. to divert resources to the anti-terrorism fight in other parts of the world. He says U.S. foreign policy needs to reflect a “rapidly changing, more complex world where terrorism is the principal challenge.”
Kerry described the anti-terrorist funding on “CBS This Morning.”
Jay Boo says
Wistfully winning Hearts and Minds on the quick with a wish that the enemy is not reading from another script.
Islamalek Must Go says
We can’t win the hearts and minds of those who possess neither.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Well put. That is to say that the self-serving willfully ignorant belief in Unicorns comes at a prices, in this instance $5 billion of hard earned Infidel taxpayer money.
This action by the war coward gigolo Kerry invokes the memory of when another $6 billion of taxpayer money, this batch in shrink wrapped $100 bills stacked on pallets, was lost in Baghdad. Some Islamophobes, including me, speculated that maybe our allies the Iraqi Moslems took it for personal use. But, as it turns out, the gubmint accountants “found” the money after all. Yeah, right.
Jay Boo says
“Oh what a tangled web they weave”
NPR is (‘reporting’) on Obama’s drop in foreign policy approval polls.
They are ‘criticizing’ the Obama administration in such a way as to make Obama appear acting with caution.
NPR wishes to guide its gullible listeners down a carefully carved path that leads to only one conclusion that Obama’s foreign policy approval drop is because of his reluctance to get in a war.
They overlook all the Kerry / Hillary fiascos and tailor the topic as being only for or against getting into a long expensive war.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Along with terminology, framing is the most important of opinion programming (aka propaganda) techniques.
Jay Boo says
ISLAM IS THE PROBLEM
Half-stepping in a dance the jihad ‘elephant in the tent’ while just outside waits the minefield of Allah’s endless discontent.
$5 billion and a bag of rice will not buy will not buy their hateful hearts, at best it merely rents.
Jay Boo says
Half-stepping in a dance with the jihad ‘elephant
Jay Boo says
OOPS another typo still,
sorry once more from the beginning
ISLAM IS THE PROBLEM
Half-stepping in a dance with the jihad ‘elephant hidden in the tent’ while just outside waits the minefield of Allah’s endless discontent.
$5 billion and a bag of rice will not buy their hateful hearts, this at best, it merely rents.
Paleologos says
I spent 18 years in Massachusetts watching everybody kiss Kerry’s ass.
He is a tall, empty suit with an empty head.
This is the guy …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbdzMLk9wHQ
… appointed by this guy …
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r317/pikedagger1868/Obama.jpg
We need capable replacements for these idiots.
… and no more muslim manchurian candidate presidents … 🙂
R/
Paleologos
Charli Mian says
I´m not sufficiently familiar with American politicians to comment on the reasoning behind John Kerry´s actions, but I would be willing to bet that most of the billions that the USA gives to Pakistan will be spent on the continued development of that country´s nuclear and weapons programme.
Put another way the USA (Europe is just as guilty ) is arming its enemies and paying for its own ultimate destruction.
mariam rove says
No. Most of that money goes to politician and senior military personnel to but million $$ homes in Dubai and else where. M
Alan S says
What puzzles me more is when one has a multi trillion dollar deficit, one can give billions away. The future for many generations will have too pay for this, give away, rather than the billions used for Americans, wonder if I ran my home finances this way if I could just keep going..
Kepha says
The aid business is a game that nations play to prove that they are “rich”. It started with an ambitious plan to rebuild Europe after WWII, which worked, and then went on to aid for some beleaguered anti-Communist states in Asia, which sometimes worked. The Soviets got into the act to prove they were as good or better than the USA. Hence, a world full of lesser receiving states where the mindset is that goodies come from powerful patrons, not from doing your own work. Note how domestically entitlement programs are used to buy disgruntled elements of the population.
stan says
why does he not use the money to rid america of terrorists
The hat says
Wow! How many of you people are white? I bid it us most if not all of you. You guys hate anything that isn’t white and christian. Go ask the jews of Germany or the muslims in Spain. Both killed by peace loving white christians by the hundreds of thousands! No religion has finger of Christian genocide of other faiths.
DFG says
270 million dead from jeehad. Not counting raped and wounded.
That’s half of all murders across all time.
Do you understand why we hate your bones?
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
My God, man, you’ve lost all touch with reality. One wonders how many times you’ll vote for our next president Hillary come 2016.
Foolster says
Nice try at slanderous race-bating once again. Islam isn’t a race. Islam teaches hatred against all non-muslims. If all you’re going to do is lie and slander then go away.
Mirren10 says
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/index_files/TROP.jpg
Idiot.
mortimer says
Without the admission that ISLAM IS THE PROBLEM, we will not stop ‘TERROR’.
That ‘terror’ is JIHAD.
Islofob IS-1 says
These progressives are just following the playbook, just don’t think they will ever tell us what the actions they take are really doing, we just could not ever understand.
Have we had enough yet?
If not, enjoy.
Jerry says
A lesson in Middle Eastern Linguistics:
I have it, on a good authority, that in Hebrew, at least
Kerry (קרי) means “something that happens”
More precisely, that “something that happens”
happens when someone has an inappropriate
“wet dream” and thus inadvertantly soils his
undercloths and bedclothes.
What is not entirely clear to me whose inappropriate
“wet dream” is at play Obama’s or Kerry’s.
Until that was explained to me I, naively, were
inclined to refer to Kerry simply as a Jerk.
Now, that I know better, I could not imagine
a more appropriate name than “Kerry”.