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Russia’s foreign minister still
hasn’t called Kerry back
Foreign Policy, by Josh Robin
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Posted By:StormCnter, 2/16/2013 7:25:17 AM
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| As you head off for your Presidents´ Day weekend, The Cable would just like to note that it´s now been over 72 hours since Secretary of State John Kerry reached out to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov -- without getting a call back. As The Cable reported earlier this week, Kerry reached out to Lavrov after North Korea detonated a nuclear bomb on Feb. 11, as well as the foreign ministers of Japan, China, and South Korea. Lavrov, who has been traveling in Africa, is the only foreign minister who didn´t answer or return Kerry´s call.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
StormCnter, 2/16/2013 7:25:57 AM (No. 9179458)
Rogin, not Robin.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
cobieone, 2/16/2013 7:37:11 AM (No. 9179473)
Either way #1, his headline could use some editing.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
uno, 2/16/2013 7:56:41 AM (No. 9179505)
Evidently Sergei just doesn´t need any ketchup right now...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jalo1951, 2/16/2013 7:58:00 AM (No. 9179508)
Well, if you had a choice to call kerry back, would you? Not me either. I guess that "reset button" hilly pulled out in that stupid stunt of hers is no longer working.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino, 2/16/2013 8:14:28 AM (No. 9179545)
I can´t fault Lurch on this one.
Sergei is out wind-surfing - - and when you catch a good breeze and some good waves - - you lose all track of time.
He´ll get back to Lurch as soon as the wind is down.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy, 2/16/2013 8:28:52 AM (No. 9179578)
Lurch gets stood up by the Ruskies. Nice. Good start to being the sequel for the PIAPS.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Grambo, 2/16/2013 8:36:08 AM (No. 9179602)
This is the sort of respect that Obie has arranged for the US. Not to mention the horseface doesn’t stand too tall in the international “gravitas” league.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jsanders, 2/16/2013 9:21:24 AM (No. 9179682)
No return call? That explains the long face....
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ocjim, 2/16/2013 9:41:08 AM (No. 9179726)
Putin et al. have had Obama´s number ever since Hillary tried to deliver that pathetically patronizing and incompetently mistranslated ´´Reset!´´
In fact most of the world sees through Obama, except the low info fools in this bamboozled country. Sadly they´re the ones with the vote.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
horacer, 2/16/2013 10:25:12 AM (No. 9179862)
Emmitt Fitz-Hume would make a better SOS than Kerry. He had no need to disclose Lavrov hadn´t called him back. Stupid thought he could impress people by naming all the people he talked to or almost talked to. Now he´s got a kerfuffle.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
KanCreeper, 2/16/2013 10:29:09 AM (No. 9179868)
Possibly, if Jon and Teresa had contributed to Putin´s Campaign Fund...Ambassador Lavrov would have sent him a phone number that was valid?
Maybe Kerry should have started his conversation with " Sergei, The Check is in the Mail." would have been a more powerful start to their dialogue?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Philipsonh, 2/16/2013 10:30:35 AM (No. 9179872)
They did "call back". They flew two of their bombers carrying nuclear weapons over Guam, a U>S> territory. They have no respect for our president, nor have they ever had any. Why would they? Most of us feel the same way. Our
family watched Dr Benjamin Carson Friday night and saw how a real President would conduct himself. There is a man with quiet strength and integrity. When a President lets terrorists destroy American property and kill Americans with no response, and in fact lies about the disaster, don´t you think other Countries notice how weak a man we have as our ´leader´, with an Administration that follows his lead. My opinion.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
killerbee, 2/16/2013 10:34:46 AM (No. 9179887)
#12: exactly. The wages of Obama´s "smart diplomacy".
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
The Advocate, 2/16/2013 10:43:29 AM (No. 9179912)
Why would a very competent foreign Minister contact a pretentious traitorous gigolo?
Gigolo John is only good for being the Handbag.
Btw, what did cause John Heinz´s "accident"?
After all, it resulted in a huge transfer of conservative wealth to a traitor and the Dem Liberal causes such as Tides Foundation. Coincidence?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Bullfrog, 2/16/2013 10:56:40 AM (No. 9179940)
The Rooskies didn´t deal with Hillary much, so why would the deal with a tird like Jon F. Kerry who sold America many times. Diplomatically, I would not deal a traitor of another country because of a "trust" issue. They have Obama in there back pocket, and they know it...Anything diplomatic will never come to light unless it is in Russia´s favor, militarily, and or strategically.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 2/16/2013 11:17:13 AM (No. 9179980)
Maybe if Kerry puts on an orange pantsuit the Russian`s will talk to him......
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Wendybird, 2/16/2013 11:22:07 AM (No. 9179995)
Undoubtedly Minister Lavrov hasn´t been informed that Mr. Kerry served with distinction in Vietnam.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
suziesuburbanite, 2/16/2013 11:24:21 AM (No. 9180002)
In the hood they call this bein´ dissed
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
hoosiergirl71, 2/16/2013 12:25:54 PM (No. 9180133)
It´s either a total distrust of the present administration, or he´s waiting on his "Reset Button". Either way, I´m smiling.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Eheu Fugaces, 2/16/2013 12:26:22 PM (No. 9180137)
Guess Kerry forgot to push the "RESET" button.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
uno, 2/16/2013 12:30:11 PM (No. 9180149)
#20 - I think it got lost among the hairbrushes and mirrors in his Gucci man-bag...
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
mominNoCA, 2/16/2013 12:33:06 PM (No. 9180154)
I don´t blame him.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
vesicant, 2/16/2013 1:43:41 PM (No. 9180278)
Kerry didn´t put the meet request on the correct tree. His handler is confused.
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