Kerry rode into the U.S. Senate on a sled called the Nuclear Freeze.
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After it was pummeled for a decade by the Peace through Strength policies of Ronald Reagan, the USSR collapsed in 1991. Then, briefly, the archives of the Kremlin opened just a crack. Thus, we learned that the Nuclear Freeze movement in Europe had been secretly pushed and stealthily funded by the Soviet secret police, the KGB.
Serenely cooing on his doves perch in the Senate, Mr. Kerry was never called upon to respond to these disclosures or to account for his dupery. In time, he was confirmed as Secretary of State in 2013 by a lopsided vote of 94-3. The Republicans, once termed the Daddy party by Chris Matthews, rolled over for seatmate John Kerry.
So now we have a Secretary of State who made his career being heroically wrong about the premier foreign policy issue of a half century -- the U.S.-Soviet clash. We may have to rename the Peter Principle for one who actually uses his disastrous misjudgments in the past to shinny up the greasy pole to the top of the foreign policy elite.
Today, Mr. Kerry is lecturing Vladimir Putin about being on the wrong side of history. Theres a delicious irony here. Putin, the KGB operative has heard all that before.