If ‘ignorance is bliss’, I believe John Kerry is kicking his heels together while he dances down the street toward the next sunset, whistling Dixie. Either that, or he is a big Arrogant Jerk.
John said today ‘we were basically at peace’ on September 11, 2001. To give him even the slightest bit of credit, I hope he meant before the towers fell. Nevertheless, you would think a senator of the United States would have a better grip on the big picture.
Or perhaps he just forgot about the attack on the USS Cole in Yemeni. Yes, not quite a year before the 9/11 attacks, we were blatantly attacked by Islamic Extremists, who killed seventeen U.S. Navy sailors, and blew a hole the size of a bus in an armored destroyer.
Maybe he wasn’t paying attention in those privileged briefings when the CIA disclosed that Al Qaeda performed a trial run on USS The Sullivans destroyer. This trial run is considered the precursor to the USS Cole incident, and would have been equally devastating if the incompetent bombers hadn’t sunk their own craft during the approach.
And could it be that he is too young to remember the devastating assaults on two U.S. embassies in Africa, just a couple years earlier in late 1998? I don’t think so; the attack killed over 220 people, and injured enough people to fill a small stadium. It is still pretty memorable to me, and I have never been a United States Senator.
And since John Kerry became a senator in 1985, I find it hard to believe he doesn’t remember the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. It was a pretty big deal, with six deaths, over 1,000 injured, and a nation standing amazed before their television sets, wondering how in the world the trade center didn’t come tumbling down after such a blast.
John Kerry explained his remark by stating that, while our nation had been under attack for 10 years running, we weren’t ‘fundamentally at war at the time’ because we technically hadn’t declared that we were at war. He must have gone to school at the same place that Bill Clinton did. I wonder if John Kerry knows what the definition of ‘is’ is.
Does ‘war’ start when you officially declare it? Or when some bunch of jerks attack you and start the fight? Have you ever wondered what they were saying around the pleasant waterways of Pearl Harbor late on December 7, 1941? John Kerry must think they were saying ‘Hey guys, it’s OK; were not really at war…’
Hey John Kerry; wake up and smell the coffee. Then, stare at yourself in the mirror and have a sample of what an Arrogant Jerk looks like. It takes a special kind to forget that our uniformed men and women have died in aggressive attacks against our country during a time that only an Arrogant Jerk could call ‘peaceful’.
