Foreign policy : The One-Man Show

[karynnj]

6. Interesting observations

I read it by logging in via facebook.

I do think they are more for intervention than Obama/Kerry/Hagel are. I think that the idea that Kerry is "stealing Obama's thunder" is not a charge that really could have much weight. Had HILLARY been the one to negotiate the Turkey/Israel relationship, then you might have had that situation as her people pushed stories about her triumph there.

That did NOT happen with Kerry - and it is only people (like us) who observed that Kerry had made trips to Turkey before it happened and that he had long seen Turkey as important for any improvement - who thought Kerry had a hand here and we had NOTHING to point to that said he had a role in this. In fact, it is still an assumption he did and it is a certainty that it made Obama look good. Kerry praised Turkey, Israel and Obama for it and emphasized its importance.