Vote for Kerry, end world anger

James Lileks has a great piece on John Kerry’s MTV comments about music and foreign policy. Here, for example, is Lileks on Kerry’s charge that the world in angry at us over not ratifying Kyoto, not doing enough to fight AIDS in Africa, etc:
“Is the world angry at Russia, which spends nothing on AIDS and rebuffed Kyoto? Is the world angry at China, which got a pass on Kyoto and spends nothing on AIDS for other countries? Is the world angry at North Korea for killings its people? Angry at Iran for smothering that vibrant nation with corrupt and thuggish mullocracy? Angry at Syria for occupying Lebanon? Angry at Saudi Arabia for its denial of women

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