“No one should doubt the capacity of America to protect Americans,” said Kerry. Oh, really? What about all the many Americans murdered by their Afghan allies over the past few years? What happened to our capacity to protect them? It was sacrificed on the altar of political correctness, specifically to the refusal of our government and military to face the fact that there is no way to protect the Afghan army and police from jihadist infiltrators.
“Kerry calls threats of swapped Taliban prisoners to resume war ‘a lot of baloney,’” by David Lerman and Greg Giroux, Bloomberg, June 9, 2014 (thanks to Samantha):
WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said threats by the five freed Taliban prisoners swapped for Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl to return to war and kill Americans are “a lot of baloney.”
Defending the swap that secured the release of the last American prisoner of war in Afghanistan, Kerry said the movements of the five Taliban prisoners released to Qatar will be closely monitored.
“No one should doubt the capacity of America to protect Americans,” Kerry said from France in a taped interview for CNN’s “State of the Union” program Sunday.
Bergdahl, held captive for almost five years, was released May 31 in exchange for five Taliban prisoners held by the U.S. at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba. The deal requires that the five men remain in Qatar for at least a year.
“They’re not the only ones keeping an eye on them,” Kerry said of the Qataris, while declining to elaborate.
“We have proven what we are capable of doing with al-Qaida,” he said.
The threats by the Taliban prisoners to resume fighting in Afghanistan and kill Americans amount to propaganda, Kerry said. “They’ll say whatever they want to stir the waters,” he said.
With the U.S. combat role in Afghanistan coming to an end and most troops to be withdrawn by the end of 2016, opportunities for Taliban to kidnap Americans will dwindle, Kerry said.
Whether or not Bergdahl deserted his post in eastern Afghanistan, as some of his former fellow soldiers claim, “it would have been offensive and incomprehensible to consciously leave an American behind,” Kerry said….
gravenimage says
Kerry calls threats of swapped Taliban prisoners to resume jihad “a lot of baloney”
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Unless we drone them as soon as they leave Qatar, how are we going to stop them?
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“No one should doubt the capacity of America to protect Americans,” said Kerry. Oh, really? What about all the many Americans murdered by their Afghan allies over the past few years?
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Well, that’s the problem, isn’t it? We can’t even consider this honest hubris, since there is ample evidence of American and coalition personnel being killed and injured *all the time* by Mohammedans in Afghanistan.
Comedian Bill Maher was also sneering at the idea that the release of these Jihadists presented a special threat—but only for the rather more realistic reason that there are plenty of other terrorists there who want to kill us.
It’s a bad sign when comics are more realistic than politicians…
But then, I’m not at all convinced that Kerry—given his behavior in Vietnam and *everything in the years since*—actually has the safety of American troops much in mind at all…
Ernie Banks says
The Taliban 5 are on record as saying they are going back to the battlefield. Kerry is hoping no one notices.
Jay Boo says
Taliban 6
Kerry needs to keep an eye on Bowe Bergdahl as well.
Shane says
Either Kerry is stupid or he thinks the American people are! Actually, both are true. I do doubt that the Obama administration is doing all it can to protect us. They will not even identify the enemy as Islamic terrorists or Muslim jihadists. When you are too gutless to name the enemy, you are not doing all you can to protect the American people.
Tradewinds says
Incredible we have an idiot as Secretary of State.
umbra says
1. He takes his lead from his boss.
2. Perhaps he may have to eat his words someday.
JIMJFOX says
Not when the Pres is also an idiot.
Vostro says
Lurch knows his boloney…just look at his “distinguished” military record!
Bezelel says
He must of forgot Bengazi.
Shane says
And the Fort Hood Massacre and the Boston Marathon bombing. Also, dozens of Islamic jihadists have been stopped before their attacks or their bombs did not go off. The enemy will not give up; they long to die as Islamic martyrs.
mgoldberg says
Oh, most of you do not understand what Kerry meant. He actually meant when he said…”“No one should doubt the capacity of America to protect Americans,”
that he was referring to the VA hospital sysmtem protecting american wounded in their service.
hint: sarcasm alert
Champ says
“No one should doubt the capacity of America to protect Americans,” said Kerry.
Kerry is not a confidence builder–his words only ring hollow with me.
Walter Sieruk says
These Taliban terrorist thugs will ,in time , resume the murderous evils of militant jihadism of Islam, Sura 2:216. 9:111,112. 47:4. It’s not a matter of ‘if ” but “when.” Of course they haven’t changed the violent and deadly islamic ways. No matthe of how much time they spent at Gitmo nor any amount of good value teaching will cause the to turn away from their heinous Islamic ways of violence and murder. As theancient Greek Aristtophanes wrote “The wisest of wise can never makea crab walk straight.” To explain this in another way, the Bible teaches in Ecclesiastes 1:15. “That which is crooked cannt be made straight…” [KJV]
Slobbering Fits says
murderous evils of militant jihadism of Islam, ….. You need any more figleafs ? How about Islam? Just plain Islam .
Walter Sieruk says
Kerry must b every conceited and think that he is very wise. For he even thinks he know much more then the Pentagon which designated these Five islamic terrorist thugs as a “high risk” and that they are “likely to pose a threat,”
Atfer all,it stands toreason what else are such characters as these five deadly jihadist chiefs going to do . All they can do and will do is both murderous and evil
Northerngirl says
Just another clown in Obama’s pansy circus
PJG says
“With the U.S. combat role in Afghanistan coming to an end and most troops to be withdrawn by the end of 2016, opportunities for Taliban to kidnap Americans will dwindle, Kerry said.”
American soldiers “kidnapped” subsequent to the Obama prisoner swap will be comforted to know they are victims of a happily “dwindling” opportunity, and heartened to know that as long as there are prisoners in Guantanamo, they can hope to be released. They might NOT be happy to know that conversion to Islam will be required of them during captivity.
ApolloSpeaks says
WHY DOESN’T JOHN KERRY SAY
that if it’s true Bo Bergdahl deserted it was the heroic thing to do. Look who he deserted: inhuman, psychopathic, Genghis Kahn savages who raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, cut off limbs, blew up bodies, randomly shot civilians, razed villages, shot cattle and dogs for sport and fun. When this morally sensitive young man (who fasted and meditated in Buddhist monasteries before enlisting) could no longer stomach the barbarity and cruelty of his squad mates his father counseled that he should follow his conscience; and he did preferring the consequences of desertion to serving with such animals. Desertion was an act of moral courage; and for that Bo Bergdahl is a hero deserving the medals Kerry threw away. /sarc
gravenimage says
Scathing and spot on, Apollo Speaks.
Robert Wagner says
Let’s swap John Kerry for Donald Sterling, he could probably do a better job. At least he couldn’t do worst.
somehistory says
Back in the olden days when cartoons were worth watching, there was one where hunters in the woods caught the big bad wolf who was after little Red Riding Hood. They turned him over to the police who interrogated him.
Police: “Will you go straight? Will you go straight?”
Wolf: “Yes, I’ll go straight. I’ll go straight.”
Police release wolf and as he is jumping through the open window of the jail house, he says, “Straight to Grandma’s house.”
Julian says
Yes nothing to fear, those released gentlemen will be only be taking up their old hobbies again such as stamp collecting – that’s to say stamping on the faces of all infidels and anyone who tries to get in their way. This is real, their inspiration is the mohammedan bible. Once read, only a fool has no opinion on it. The options are – obey it or fight it? That said many westernised mohammedans are like schizophrenics with compartmentalised minds that are in turmoil, they have a giant flaw running across their inner integrity and happiness .
S Newman says
John Kerry LIED to the U.S. Senate about our troops when he came scurrying back from his Viet Nam tour of duty – 243 days early – with some of his mates saying he returned due to self-inflicted injuries.
Mr. Kerry called our troops terrorists, by insisting that American soldiers were raping, dismembering, torturing, poisoning and murdering innocent civilians in Viet Nam.
The troops who served with him have refuted ALL of his testimony and exposed him as a LIAR.
John Kerry then traveled to Paris and ILLEGALLY inserted himself into “peace talks” with North Viet Nam’s Communist leadership.
He did this while still a commissioned officer and WITHOUT permission from the U.S. government.
Documents captured on the battlefield in 1971 – which have since been declassified – reveal that Mr. Kerry’s “Vietnam Veterans Against the War” group was taking orders directly from the Communists.
Kerry gave AID AND COMFORT TO OUR ENEMIES while we were AT WAR and while our POWs were enduring tremendous torture and suffering.
Kerry LIED and called our veterans rapists, murderers and torturers.
John Kerry has NEVER apologized for this.
And he has not changed his tune since the 1970s!
Kerry has said in recent televised interviews that our current soldiers are terrorizing innocent civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan.
John Kerry is a THIEF of stolen valor, a LIAR and he is MORALLY UNFIT to represent America in ANY capacity!