Genghis Khan, Secretary of State
by Bill Levinson
Originally in the American Thinker
The infamously insane Roman emperor Caligula made his horse Incitatus a Roman Consul. Barack Obama has just nominated John Kerry to be Secretary of State. Rome, unlike the United States, at least got the entire horse.
The United States might just as well send Jared Lee Loughner or, if he was still alive, Adam Lanza, to represent it in the world community, and this is no exaggeration. John Kerry is, per his own admission, a mass murderer just like Loughner and Lanza or, to use his own words, Genghis Khan.
John Kerry: Admitted Felon, Liar, or Both
There is a huge legal difference between an admitted felon and a convicted felon. Neither John Kerry nor Barack Obama’s friend William Ayers was ever convicted of a felony, but both said they committed felonies. Ayers said he was “guilty as hell, free as a bird,” to which he added, “I don’t regret setting bombs” and “I feel we didn’t do enough.” John Kerry was similarly never brought to trial for the things he said he did in Vietnam, but his own admission that he did them should be more than enough to disqualify him from any position of public trust or responsibility.
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Kerry is harmless. LBJ knew that the War was a lost cause, yet 3 million Vietnamese and 57,000 Americans lost their lives because of it. McCain, on the other hand bombed innocent villagers and when captured by the NVA revealed valuable national security secrets to the enemy.
All this equates to a molehill being puffed up artificially into a mountain. Kerry will easily be confirmed by the US Senate, even though there will be nothing easy about senatorial confirmation of former US Senator Charles Hagel for US Secretary of Defense.
Also Bill Levinson’s rhetoric on this topic is too high-flown to be taken seriously. Genhis Khan, Caligula and Incitatus the horse, indeed.
In any case, there is a pressing need for you who can vote in Israel Israel to get rid of your own Incitati from the leadership of the Jewish state. Naftali Bennet and an expanded Jewish National Home Party would be my choice, were it possible for me to vote in one of your elections. The more that the goyim rage in apprehension about south fine young leaders, the more I trust just those men who are targeted at this treatment which has been used whenever any Jew stands up against them in the service of haShem and the Jewish nation.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
… Should have been:
“The more that the goyim rage in apprehension about such fine young Jewish national leaders”.
Too bad Israpundit does not permit commenters to edit our handiwork after the first four minutes or so following their posting.
That, plus the fact that comments sent in from the relatively tiny screens of laptop computers are an invitation to uncorrected typographical errors.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Unfortunately the GOP doesn’t have the balls to bring this up.
Laura, I disagree with your contention on general grounds.
Short of the production-line mass murders by the Nazi professional killers in eastern Europe in World War II, I do not recognize so-called war crimes. The only crime in war is to engage in one and then lose it.
From start to finish, the Vietnam war was nothing more or less than the act of the Vietnamese nation to re-unify their countries within the same general territories controlled by that nation before the French imperialist invasions and colonization in the late 19th century.
So it is really too bad the people who ran the USA in the 1950s and 1960s could not foresee a time when the communists of East Asia would shuck off Marxism and, if anything, become more capitalist, in practice if not in political theory, than the United States of America in our present era. If there was a war crime in Vietnam involving our fighting forces sent there, then the real criminals were the politicians who first provoked the war, sent large numbers of our young men into that war, and not a few women in the military support services, then lost the will to fight the war through to a victorious conclusion.
I write this as a veteran of three years service in the United States Army late in the Korean War and its aftermath, with two of those years in active service and one in the reserves. I never regretted my service. Only the inability of the leaders of this country to maintain a consistent policy in regard to the wars in which we have involved ourselves since the end of World War II.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
I am assuming that the article’s reference to at least ‘the whole horse’ it is implying that John Kerry is a horse’s ass only.