On the eve of the disastrous midterm elections, President Obama’s press secretary Robert Gibbs derided what he called “the professional left.” On the eve of what could be an even more crucial congressional vote on a resolution authorizing military force in Syria, the administration is assiduously courting it.
Thursday night Secretary of State John Kerry took his case for intervention to MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, who has declared his opposition to such a move. Kerry put his personal credibility as an anti-war Vietnam veteran entirely and passionately on the line, sometimes almost shouting in a smallish State Department office.
“I feel confident that what I am doing is informed by my own lessons of war and informed by my opposition to war, but informed also by my years of supporting certain military actions when they’re important to the security of our nation,” Kerry told Hayes. “Chris, you know, I’ve thought a lot about this. I know the lessons of war I don’t believe this is taking America to war.”
John Kerry to Chris Hayes: “We’re not going to war!” - Salon.com
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