Kerry to Russians: This is not a game

[beachmom]

5. Actually, I don't get the outrage on the Kissinger meeting

I found it hysterical, and given Kerry citing Kissinger in speeches for years, I did not find the meeting problematic. I mean, I am sure he is ringing up progressive foreign policy experts all the time without any photo op. It seems to me this meeting was to conjure up memories of Kissinger's success with respect to China.

This is an example of my feeling very apart from the anti-war left crowd (I'm sure there is a better term, but these are the folks from the '60s anti-war movement plus their ideological descendants since then). They're overall a nasty bunch of people, at least online, who are nauseatingly self righteous. Anyone who disagrees is akin to a Nazi sympathizer. I will include Glenn Greenwald to the type of person I mean, who is always RIGHT and condemns anyone who disagrees as a sycophant to power. I'm more pragmatic about who Kerry can or cannot meet with to solve problems.