Who asked you, citizen Kerry? |

Our failed secretary of state again interferes in U. S. diplomacy.

Speaking of President Trump’s request of all member nations to pay their fair-share for NATO’s mission, former Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters “I’ve never a seen a president say anything as strange or counterproductive as President Trump’s harangue against NATO and Germany. It was disgraceful, destructive, and flies in the face of actual American interests.”

Kerry was addressing reporters prior to a meeting he had with the NATO secretary-general on Wednesday. So, again, citizen Kerry, with no diplomatic credentials, inserts himself on foreign soil in opposition to the current administration.

My readers, Mr. Kerry, will recall how you also attempted to interfere with the president’s decision to pull out of the Paris Accord and your flawed deal with Iran.

While you referred to President Trump’s meeting at NATO last year as “a disaster,” time will tell if his strong urging of NATO nations to pay their fair share will make a difference. Certainly, American taxpayers are behind him.

You, Mr. Obama, and for that matter, George W. Bush, sought to accomplish this in the previous 16 years with little or no success.

Here’s a forceful appeal made by President Obama:

“Every NATO member should be contributing its full share – 2 percent of GDP – towards our common security, something that doesn’t always happen. And I’ll be honest, sometimes Europe has been complacent about its own defense.” – President Obama, in Germany, April 2012

In 2014, you were snookered by their “pledge” to up their ante over the next decade.

“If we’ve got collective defense, it means that everybody’s got to chip in, and I have had some concerns about a diminished level of defense spending among some of our partners in NATO. Not all, but many. We’ve got to be willing to pay for the assets, the personnel, the training that’s required to make sure that we have a credible NATO force and an effective deterrent force. So, one of the things that I think, medium and long term, we’ll have to examine, is whether everybody is chipping in.” – President Obama, NATO press conference, Brussels, March 2014.

With president-elect Trump’s repeated insistence that NATO countries give their fair share during his campaign, President Obama made one last request of the NATO countries in November 2016, in an effort to salvage his European NATO legacy.

“There’s a time, place and manner for raising issues with allies and trashing them on camera in a way that calls into question the alliance itself isn’t it,” said Kerry, who failed to get results after years of cozying-up and kumbaya sessions.

AN ASIDE – Sen. John McCain (RINO-AZ), who served in the Senate during the decades of U.S. failure to increase funding to NATO, felt the need to comment on the president’s effort to strengthen NATO, calling President Trump’s rhetoric “disappointing.” OMG

THEN THERE’S THIS: