WASHINGTON — Drawing on his experience as the son of a Foreign Service officer, Senator John F. Kerry on Thursday made an impassioned plea for what he said his father called “foreign policy outdoors” — the need for American diplomats to interact extensively with foreign populations, despite the security risks.
“We have to be on the ground outside the wire reaching out to those people,” Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said as he opened a hearing to receive testimony on the State Department investigation into the terrorist assault that killed the US ambassador and three others in Benghazi, Libya, in September.
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If John Kerry wishes to become the next Secretary of State he will first have to insist that the current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, testify before the House and Senate committees.
Honestly, sometimes Kerry sounds hopelessly out of touch.
#1. The American diplomatic mission at Benghazi, in Libya, was attacked on September 11, 2012 by a heavily armed group.
#2. The attack killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.
#3. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens interacted exyensively with the population.
#4. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans faulted State Department officials in Washington for ignoring requests from the American Embassy in Tripoli for more guards for the mission and for failing to make sufficient safety upgrades.
The attack was not because of a You_Tube video.