Kerry: Global Warming World’s ‘Most Fearsome’ Threat

132156075_21nSpeaking at the Wind Technology Testing Center in Boston Massachusetts on October 9th, the windsurfer and windbag-in-chief himself, Secretary of State John Kerry, pronounced that climate change, if left unaddressed, will result in the end of times: “Life as you know it on Earth ends,” Kerry said. Last February, Kerry claimed that climate change was the world’s “most fearsome” weapon of mass destruction. Not nuclear arms in the hands of the terrorist sponsoring regime of Iran or in the hands of ISIS or al Qaeda. Climate change is the real number #1 national security threat, according to Kerry.

Perhaps Kerry should take his head out of the clouds and take a hard look at the stark reality on earth that we are facing today. Think Ebola and global jihad for starts.

The World Health Organization called the Ebola outbreak “the most severe, acute health emergency seen in modern times.” The Ebola epidemic has already killed more than 4,000 people, mostly in the West Africa. But the Ebola virus has spread to other parts of the world, including the United States. A Liberian man who had traveled to the U.S. has already died of Ebola in a Texas hospital. Now we learn that a nurse who treated him at the hospital is infected herself with the virus.

As usual, the Obama administration is scrambling to deal with the crisis by holding lots of meetings and taking half-hearted measures. It has refused to heed calls by an increasing number of people, including a leading epidemiologist, David Dausey, who works on controlling pandemics and said that we must do “whatever it takes to keep infected people from coming here.” This should include an immediate ban on travel from the countries with the largest rates of infection to the United States. A majority of Americans agree, according to an NBC News online survey. Instead, the Obama administration is more worried about such bans being seen as racist and disrupting the economies of the affected countries in West Africa than protecting the American people and easing their fears.

“We don’t want to isolate parts of the world,” said Dr. Tom Frieden, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, earlier this month. John Kerry said that “we need borders to remain open,” while calling as usual for multilateral action by African nations to deal with the crisis. They are wrong. Except for vital medical supplies transported on military aircraft to help stem the further spread of the disease in West Africa, the borders should be closed. The breeding ground in West Africa for Ebola must be fully isolated lest the deadly disease turn into a global pandemic. To paraphrase John Kerry, an unchecked Ebola contagion will bring an end to many lives including possibly in the United States – a lot sooner than climate change.

ISIS is on the outskirts of Baghdad. It is also on the verge of capturing the key city of Kobani near the Turkish border. While apoplectic and apocalyptic all at the same time about climate change, Kerry sees the jihadist conquests as just part of the “ups” and “downs” there are “in any kind of conflict.” He has talked about so-called “climate refugees.” However, despite the threat of imminent ISIS conquest of Kobani and the flood of real refugees attempting to escape slaughter at the hands of the jihadists in Syria, Kerry said that the U.S. has other strategic objectives. “As horrific as it is to watch in real time what is happening in Kobani, you have to step back and understand the strategic objective,” he remarked. Exactly what that strategic objective is, neither Kerry nor President Obama have been able to clearly explain.

Last month at the United Nations headquarters in New York, Kerry told reporters that the U.S. was getting all that it needed in the way of support from Turkey. But that was not true. Turkey has been dragging its feet ever since Kerry made that remark. Only in just the last several days has Turkey finally agreed to allow the use of its bases by coalition forces fighting against ISIS. Turkey still is preventing Kurds living in Turkey from joining their besieged Kurdish colleagues in Syria to save Kobani. And although Turkey is the NATO member most directly threatened on its border by ISIS, its Islamist government has not been willing to date to contribute any of its own ground troops to fight ISIS and prevent an invasion across its border. If Turkey is invaded by ISIS, will it expect the U.S. and other NATO members to come to its aid with air and ground combat forces under the collective security provisions of the NATO treaty?  What good is Turkey as a member of NATO and purported “ally” of the United States anyway so long as it is led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who shares ISIS’s supremacist Islamist ideology, if not its methods, and has his own caliphate ambitions?

As for what is happening in Iraq – a direct consequence of the Obama administration’s decision to pull all U.S. troops out of the country in 2011 against the advice of military and policy advisers – Kerry said that it is up to the Iraqis to deal with what Kerry himself acknowledged was “an existential threat” to their country. U.S. airstrikes remain too little too late. And military supplies for the Kurds in Iraq to use in serving as the boots in the ground against ISIS in Iraq continue to be supplied through Baghdad rather than directly to the Kurds themselves.

During this past week’s international donor conference in Cairo concerning Gaza reconstruction, Kerry said casually that “There will be ups and there will be downs over the next days as there are in any kind of conflict.” But the conflict with ISIS is not just “any kind of conflict.” And ISIS and its jihadist cohorts are no ordinary combatants with local territorial, political or economic grievances. They are the carriers of the global ideology of Islamic supremacism that threatens, again to paraphrase Kerry, to end life as we know it in a civilized world.

Next to the immediate threats posed by Ebola and global jihad, climate change pales by comparison.

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  • Bamaguje

    “As horrific as it is to watch in real time what is happening in Kobani, you have to step back and understand the strategic objective” – John Kerry.

    If the strategic objective is to crush ISIS, shouldn’t that mean ISIS should not be allowed to win anywhere… including Kobani?
    From Kerry’s above statement, the Kobani Kurds are expendable in the bigger scheme of things… whatever that might be. Obama administration has clearly resigned itself to the slaughter of Kobani Kurds.

    “Turkey is the NATO member most directly threatened on its border by
    ISIS” – Joe Klein.

    Erdogan’s Turkey is not threatened by ISIS. In fact as Biden stated, Turkey facilitated the emergence of ISIS. It considers ISIS a useful ally to destroy the Kurdish ambition for nationhood… Which is why Erdogan refuses to help Kobane Kurds against ISIS.

    “What good is Turkey as a member of NATO and purported “ally” of the
    United States anyway so long as it is led by President Recep Tayyip
    Erdogan, who shares ISIS’s supremacist Islamist ideology, if not its
    methods, and has his own caliphate ambitions?”

    Now you get it. Turkey and ISIS are allies. The same ISIS that didn’t hesitate to slaughter and behead religious
    minorities, American journalists, captured Iraqi and Syrian soldiers, as
    well as thousands of religious minorities – released Turkish hostages
    unharmed.
    There is clearly a pact between ISIS and Erdogan’s Turkey,
    otherwise ISIS wouldn’t have the guts to brazenly attack Kobane, with
    Turkish forces amassed close by.

    • Pericles

      Right you are friend! Not only are Turkey and ISIS involved in a diabolical alliance but I think that Obama is part of it. He is going through the “motions” of “degrading & destroying ISIS” but ignoring the plight of the Kurds, refusing to send them the weapons they need to combat ISIS because they might be used against Turkey at a future time.

      60-nation coalition against ISIS? If you believe that then you can also believe you can keep your doctor under Obamacare and that your premiums will decline significantly.

  • Gamal

    Keep Liberians out of America are you crazy? Think of all the potential grateful immigrants and voters for Democrats we’d be keeping out if we didn’t let them in.

    • Virgil Hilts

      Overlooking, of course. the obvious failure with that strategy: They can’t vote if they’re DEAD!

      • Gamal

        But then our ecosystem would be more balanced and the plants and the animals would be happy. There are too many human polluters on the planet but thanks to Obama that problem may be solved in the near future.

      • Andrew_DeMoray

        They can in Chicago.

      • Graywolf12

        I usually agree with you, but not on this. Here in Texas one county voted something like 250% of the population of the county. Everything is bigger in Texas, even voter fraud.

  • JVictor

    The brains of progressive liberals can really only handle so many things. They can speak of other things; but, they have no real understanding of the complexities of civilized life. When they are confronted with additional information, they revert back to their original programming. Hence, “climate change” and “RACISM” are the default topics that they focus on at all times. Nero fiddled while Rome burned. The Kerry’s and Obama’s of the world will be wind-surfing and golfing as western civilization burns if they are left in charge.

  • hhh33

    Well at least the weather will be nice and carbon usage under control for our beheading.

    • swemson

      CO2 isn’t carbon. Calling it carbon is like calling H2O hydrogen.

      CO2 levels don’t drive temperature, it’s the other way around, however there’s an enormous time lag (several centuries) between the temperature change and the change in CO2 levels.

      In any event, warming is good. The only type of temperature change that poses a threat to us is extreme cooling, because crops don’t grow well in cold climates.

      http://www.swemson.com/upl/iceage.jpg

      fs

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  • rickgee

    I think Kerry is right about this. These global warming scammers are dangerous and scary.

  • Virgil Hilts

    Over the loud-speaker is heard the following voice: “Mr, Kerry…Mr Kerry…please report to the lost and found; we have located your brain…and wish you would come get it!”

  • MarilynA

    Once again…The Global Warming crisis was dreamed up by the radical militant activists from the 60s Civil rights and Peace movements. The environment was chosen as the cause under which they felt they could unite the most people because, at the time, just about everyone had some kind of big nasty in their back yard. The quoted ultimate aim of these radical Communists (yes our domestic communists still think they can make Communism work “If it is practiced in it’s true form.”) I was on the inside when this hoax was dreamed up so I speak from personal knowledge. All these articles on the dire environmental crisis are written by people with advanced degrees(PhDs) in subjects other than science such as psychology, religion, etc. They are the same people who dreamed up the “Alar in the apples” scare just prior to switching their attention to “Climate change.” All these dire warnings of impending doom because of green house gasses are false. Statistics prove that in the past 16 years, while carbon emissions have increased 13%, global temperatures have been falling. So all of you who think “the end is near” I suggest you stop following these Don Quixote Characters who keep jousting at windmills and stop electing fools who are encouraging people to keep wasting their energies and money trying to fix something that isn’t broken. The ultimate aim is to destroy the US economy and prove that Capitalism a bigger failure than Communism by convincing people that Capitalism is not only killing you, it’s killing the planet..

    • senior74

      Not only that, but the global warming scare is the excuse to push the UN Sustainable Development Agenda 21, the plan to make America part of a Communist one world government! This is really the reason they are pushing the bs. Life as we knew it is disappearing rapidly with Obama’s team . It angers me to know that no one is reporting on this nor are republican politicians, when even the liberals hate this when they learn about it. democratsagainstunagenda21.com

  • nimbii

    Starting in the 60′s, we saw the social sciences corrupted by federal government’s research grants that had to build on the “truth” was being financed. Now, we see the hard sciences corrupted by the same corrupt government funding process by getting on the money train with global interruption, et al.

  • vnamvet1969

    Nothing of consequence comes from this fools mouth. A traitor as Secretary of State shows how far we have fallen.

  • garyfouse

    Kerry knows what he is talking about. Once Climate Change takes effect, he won’t be able to go wind-surfing anymore. His life as he knows it will be changed forever.

    What a dope!

  • Sheik Yerbouti

    Thurston is only worried about his caviar stocks.

  • okokok

    As for ebola, Texas should be quarantined; I hear Mexico is building a wall to keep those third world no regulation Texans from bringing diseases over the border…perfectly reflects their health care system..

  • Bamaguje

    Erdogan may have his own Caliphate ambitions, but presently he is better off allying with ISIS against their common enemies – Kurds, the West, Assad etc.

  • bobro

    Once Lurch has solved the climate problem all the others, Isis, Ebola, etc will surrender. Moron.

  • johngvanvliet

    Kerry and Obama and Cameron are all the same …just liars….

    • senior74

      Exactly!! What they are pushing is UN Sustainable Development Agenda 21, the plan to make America part of a Communist one world government! See agenda21news.com or torn-republic.com top of the page has a box.

  • Sara

    Or he’s just letting ISIS do the dirty work.

    • Pericles

      Excellent observation Sara!

  • joe kulak

    If this clown is the measure of our leaders we are lost.

  • steve b

    LURCH IS A TOTAL MORON AND SHOULD BE TOSSED ASIDE WITH THAT OTHER JERK, AL GORE.

  • Pericles

    “Climate change is the real number #1 national security threat, according to Kerry.”

    The Soviet NKVD used to “reeducate” communist party members by torturing them in prison until they admitted the error of their ways and thinking and admitted that Lenin and the Party were right in all things. Is it possible that Mr. Kerry has undergone a similar indoctrination in some green environmentalist prison? How else can we explain his irrational religious devotion to a totally absurd and fictitious theory of climate change (formerly called ‘Global Warming’)?