Posted by
Buster Foghorn on Saturday, January 27, 2007 6:50:12 PM
Today, Senator John Kerry at the Davos economic summit attacked the Bush Administration for isolating the U.S. and turning it into "a sort of international pariah."
Others have commented on the inaccuracies in his allegations, but there is also the troubling aspect that Senator Kerry and a few other Americans feel at liberty to travel overseas and then attack the United States. Gone is the old tradition that criticism of your country ends at the waters’ edge.
In his defense, Senator Kerry may see himself as more the cosmopolitan man with world-wide portfolio and allegiance to no country. If, however, he still considers himself an American first and foremost, then perhaps he and others congenitally cursed with foot-in-mouth disease, should, at least during this time of war against a ruthless enemy, return to some basic concepts of civic duty.