How sweet it is to die for … the UN

According to the Washington Post:

Kerry’s belief in working with allies runs so deep that he has maintained that the loss of American life can be better justified if it occurs in the course of a mission with international support. In 1994, discussing the possibility of U.S. troops being killed in Bosnia, he said, “If you mean dying in the course of the United Nations effort, yes, it is worth that. If you mean dying American troops unilaterally going in with some false presumption that we can affect the outcome, the answer is unequivocally no.”

(“Help of Allies Among Three Key Themes,” Helen Dewar and Thomas E. Ricks, October 20, 2004.)

Posted by Lawrence Auster at October 20, 2004 06:27 PM | Send