Kerry’s coalition against the Islamic State fails his ‘global test’

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Marc Thiessen

When John Kerry ran for president in 2004, he dismissed the allies fighting alongside the United States in Iraq as a “trumped-up, so-called coalition of the bribed, the coerced, the bought and the extorted.”

Now, as secretary of state, Kerry is going hat-in-hand to many of the same nations he insulted, asking them to join a U.S.-led coalition in Iraq.

No wonder he’s having so much trouble.

As Kerry lobbies potential coalition partners at the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York this week, it is worth recalling how he offended the 30-plus nations that sent ground troops to fight alongside us in Iraq — including the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland, Ukraine, the Netherlands, Australia, Romania, South Korea, Japan, Denmark, Bulgaria, Thailand, El Salvador, Hungary, Singapore, Norway, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Mongolia, Latvia, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Slovakia, Albania, New Zealand, Tonga, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Spain, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Honduras, the Philippines, Armenia and Bosnia-Herzegovina — plus the many others who supported the mission with basing, overflight and other crucialassistance.

Kerry dismissed as “window dressing” the sacrifice of those nations, including the 14 coalition countries who by then had seen their soldiers die on the battlefield in Iraq. His cavalier comments prompted the president of Poland (a country that led Multinational Division in Central-South Iraq and lost 23 soldiers in battle) to declare, “It’s sad that a Senator with twenty years of experience does not appreciate Polish sacrifice . . . I don’t think it’s a question of ignorance. . . . It’s immoral not to see this involvement we undertook.”

Kerry mocked the contributions of smaller nations, declaring “When they talk about a coalition, that’s the phoniest thing I ever heard. You’ve got 500 troops here, 500 troops there.” Never mind he’s now working for a president who just used a prime-time address to announce that he is deploying — wait for it — 475 troops to Iraq (but insists they will not have a “combat role”).

Now, Kerry is meeting resistance from nations small and large as he seeks allies to join the fight against the Islamic State.

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Kerry’s just mad because ISIS called him, ”the old uncircumcised geezer.”
Our would-be allies are lining up with their hands out.
They are waiting for Obama/Kerry to bribe, buy and extort them.
Show me the money!

@Nanny+G: I don’t know about the circumcision aspect of it, but I do know that people should be a bit more careful about their rhetoric; it just might bite them in the ass. Not only did Kerry’s stupid remarks not get him elected President (thank God), but now he has to face up to the people he insulted and ask them favors. A measure of justice in that.

Nanny+G
You forgot to add drunk, stupid, arrogant and above all useless.

@MOS+#8541: You mean ISIS forgot to add those names.

If it had been me, well, don’t get me started.

Isis will be bombed back into the Stone Age. U.S and 5 Arab partners will eliminate with extreme prejudice.–get onboard–these maniacs need to suffer. Outstanding Kurdish fighters will take revenge on the ground.
Semper Fi

@richard wheeler: Canada sent 69 commandos to help the Kurds in this coalition of the unwilling. A regiment has at least 3500 soldiers. The last I heard, the air coalition was bombing the Cardassians, the Kardashians, or the Khorassians. That’s Star Trek gazing, navel gazing, or Muslims grazing. Who is the enemy? My guess is Assad.

Now the IDF has shot down a Syrian bomber over their airspace. Where is this going? The White House is a follower of Marx. Is that Karl or Groucho?

@oil+guy+from+Alberta: Can’t help it if Canada on the sidelines.
You know we’ll bail your ass out later if need be.

I wonder how fast potential jihadis in Europe are getting ISIS’ number?
Yesterday we learned from a group of newer jihadis that an ISIS commander was sodomizing all new recruits.
Today we learn that ISIS considers ALL European and UK volunteer jihadis as good-for-nothings who are used as suicide bombers and cannon fodder only.
“British and French passport holders were considered useless because they had no real battlefield experience and had no technical qualifications. Instead of receiving full training, the British Jihadis were instead brainwashed into believing in their right to ‘women in heaven and those they could rape on earth’, before being sent on suicide missions.”
Their inclusion in ISIS’ life means, ”the systematic rape of captured women, some of whom are as young as nine years old.”
After ‘Omer’ witnessed six ISIS soldiers raping a 13-year old Christian girl in her home he made a complaint, but was quickly censured when he was told by a Senior local “a 13-year-old girl is not considered a child, essentially because prophet Muhammad married his wife, Aisha, when she was only 9 years old.”
http://www.yourmiddleeast.com/culture/exclusive-qa-with-former-islamic-state-member_26696
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/09/23/Useless-British-Jihad-Suicide-Squads

How many of France’s and UK’s potential jihadis will now balk if the learn how ISIS views them?