Kerry and global warming: he's a moron

Having said in a recent post that Secretary of State John Kerry finally said something I agree with -- that his mind is a blank slate -- I am now back to disagreeing with Kerry because he is, frankly, an idiot. He apparently does not realize that his job is diplomatic relations with the other nations of the world and the protection of U.S. interests abroad against foreign aggression. No, he doesn't get that:

In his first department-wide policy guidance statement since taking office a year ago, he told his 70,000 staff: "The environment has been one of the central causes of my life."
"Protecting our environment and meeting the challenge of global climate change is a critical mission for me as our country's top diplomat," Kerry said in the letter issued on Friday to all 275 US embassies and across the State Department.
"It's also a critical mission for all of you: our brave men and women on the frontlines of direct diplomacy," he added in the document seen by AFP.
He urged all "chiefs of mission to make climate change a priority for all relevant personnel and to promote concerted action at posts and in host countries to address this problem."

Being secretary of state does not mean you get to push "one of the central causes of [your] life." It means you represent U.S. interests. Even if you believe the horseshit that is the theory of anthropogenic global warming, dealing with that is not the State Department's job. Kerry apparently believes that, though, which makes him an idiot. The fact that he believes man-made global warming is the biggest threat to this nation makes him delusional. And yeah, he said that recently, calling global warming the most "fearsome weapon" the planet faces:

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned Indonesians on Sunday that man-made climate change could threaten their entire way of life, deriding those who doubted the existence of "perhaps the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction".
Kerry described those who do not accept that human activity causes global warming as "shoddy scientists" and "extreme ideologues", and said big companies and special interests should not be allowed to "hijack" the climate debate.

I am not, in this post, going to get into why Kerry is so monumentally wrong. But he is. I doubt he can even explain the theory of anthropogenic global warming, much less argue in favor of it. He's one of those pinheads who says "the science is settled" and wants to leave it at that. Really? Then what is the First Law of Global Warming? That's what I thought. Blow me.

Meanwhile, Russia is calmly taking back former Soviet republics and we are letting it happen with a feckless response. Syria does what it wants despite President Obama's "red line" on chemical weapons. Iran cheerfully continues to develop nuclear weapons and interfere in Iraq. North Korea has restarted its nuclear program. Afghanistan's president says he doesn't need U.S. troops there, while the Taliban prepares to take over again. China is claiming it owns territories it doesn't, bullies its neighbors and continues to develop force-projection capabilities while harassing U.S. vessels trying to keep an eye on them. Yeah, global warming is the biggest threat to our international interests. You want links to all that shit? Google it. And if you Google all that and still think global warming is our big problem, refer to the title of the blog.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-post-abc-news-poll-keystone-xl-project-overwhelmingly-favored-by-americans/2014/03/06/d74c58c6-a4a1-11e3-a5fa-55f0c77bf39c_story.html

Americans support the idea of constructing the Keystone XL oil pipeline between Canada and the United States by a nearly 3 to 1 margin, with 65 percent saying it should be approved and 22 percent opposed, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.