Saturday, January 17, 2015

American thinker: Kerry in Paris [Yes, Obama is no de Gaulle, but those leaders who did march in Paris are also working for our demographic doom. --tma]

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Kerry in Paris

Secretary of State John Kerry managed to pull himself away from more pressing business to arrive -- five days late -- for high level talks in Paris. Other “world leaders” had linked arms last Sunday to lead a crowd of marchers in solidarity against the terrorists who left seventeen dead in their wake.

President Obama and Vice President Biden stayed home, gated and guarded, and took in the Sunday football games during the Paris march. Kerry dismissed the outrage of the world that the top U.S. leadership had blown off the march as “mere quibbling.”

But a week late, Kerry showed up in the City of Lights, elegantly coiffed and attired, as usual. He had come, he said, to give Paris “a big hug.” And he brought PBS crooner James Taylor, who gave a touching rendition of “You’ve Got a Friend” to all the French fans of elevator music.

This might be a good time for us as Americans to remember what courage looks like. To remember what intelligence sounds like. It’s been a long time.

General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French, was on hand on August 26, 1944, to lead the march down the Champs Elysée to celebrate the liberation of Paris after four long dark years of German occupation. Every day of those four years, Parisians had ached to see goose-stepping Nazis marching through the Arc de Triomphe. Every day, they had looked up at the Eiffel Tower to see the hated Swastika flag flying mockingly on top.

De Gaulle would later record in his memoirs his impressions of that day. ...

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/01/kerry_in_paris.html