Kerry slams US foreign policyDavos, Jan 27: Massachusetts Senator John Kerry slammed the foreign policy of the Bush administration on Saturday saying that it has caused the United States to become ‘a sort of international pariah.’ The statement came as the Democrat lawmaker responded to a question about whether the US
government had failed to adequately engage Iran’s government before the election of hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005. Kerry said that the Bush administration has failed to adequately address a
number of foreign policy issues, speaking during the World Economic Forum panel discussion that also included Iraqi Vice President Adil Abd al-Mahdi and Mohammad Khatami, Ahmadinejad’s more moderate predecessor as Iranian President. “When we walk away from global warming, and are irresponsibly slow in moving toward aids in Africa, while we don’t advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy,” Kerry said. “So we have a crisis of confidence in the Middle East, in the world, really. I’ve never seen our country as isolated, as much as a sort of international pariah for a number of reasons as it is today. “Kerry said that the government needs to use
diplomacy to improve National security. “We need to do a better job of protecting our interests, because after all, that’s what diplomacy is about,” he said. “But you have to do it in the context of the
reality, not your lens but the reality of those other cultures and histories.”.AP
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