As always, Lurch’s worst enemy is Lurch.
Via Weekly Standard:
Secretary of State John Kerry tells Fox News’s James Rosen that the Obama administration does not “do foreign policy by polls.” That, the sescretary of state said, is “a good thing.” […]
Kerry replied, “Well, look, it’s a good thing that we don’t do foreign policy by polls. That would be a tragedy and a huge mistake.”
[B]ut after saying that polls don’t dictate American foreign policy, Kerry then said that Americans don’t want troops in foreign wars, which limits the tools the administration has to solving the world’s problems.
“American people also don’t want American troops going into these places to fight the wars for these people. So there are very limited tools, very limited tools. And I believe we’ve just had a huge success in being able to get chemical weapons out of Syria. I think that right now we’re working hard here in Iraq to be able to pull together a unifying government, a competent government that’s prepared to be able to try to deal with some of the issues here,” said Kerry.
“So my real test will not be what the American people make a judgment about today. It will be what they make a judgment about when we finish, and then we’ll see what the legacy is.”
Rosen responded, “It sounds like you like the polls you like and you don’t like the polls you don’t like.”