John Kerry to college grads: Prepare for a ‘borderless world’
On Friday, the Washington Examiner reported that Secretary of State John Kerry, who, by the way, served in Vietnam, took a shot at presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump while delivering a commencement speech at Northeastern University. In addition to saying that no wall is big enough to keep terrorists out of the U.S., he told the students to prepare for a “borderless world.”
“Many of you were in elementary school when you learned the toughest lesson of all on 9/11,” he said. “There are no walls big enough to stop people from anywhere, tens of thousands of miles away, who are determined to take their own lives while they target others.”
“So I think that everything that we’ve lived and learn tells us that we will never come out on top if we accept advice from sound-bite salesmen and carnival barkers who pretend the most powerful country on Earth can remain great by looking inward,” he added. “And hiding behind walls at a time that technology has made that impossible to do and unwise to even attempt.”
The Washington Examiner added:
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Kerry didn’t mention Trump by name, but Trump has repeatedly called for a wall on the southern U.S. border, and many Democrats, and some Republicans, have taken to calling him a carnival barker.
Kerry also seemed to dismiss the importance of national borders, and said technology has reshaped the world into one that the U.S. must engage at the risk of being left behind. He said Trump and others who want to look inward are making a mistake, even in the face of rising tension and violence in the world.
“For some people, that is all they need simply to climb under the sheets, close their eyes and push the world away,” he told the students. “And shockingly, we even see this attitude from some who think they ought to be entrusted with the job of managing international affairs.”
“The future demands from us something more than a nostalgia for some rose-tinted version of the past that did not really exist in any case,” he added. “You’re about to graduate into a complex and borderless world.” (Emphasis added)
And Kerry is doing everything he can to make that happen…
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