«Pope» Kerry

It used to be that people asked "Who died and named you Pope?", meaning, by what or whose authority does someone proceed. Now, it must be updated to "Who resigned and named you Pope?" In either case, someone should ask John Kerry the question, given his scolding of the Turkish Prime Minister, for having called Zionism a crime against humanity. As far as I know, there is no "central authority" that gets to decide what is proper or improper in the expression of ideas in the world. Who does the U.S. Secretary of State think he is, that he can chastise the leader of another country for expressing what is, in his estimation, an unpopular view? Just this week, in Berlin, Kerry called "the right to be stupid" in the U.S. a democratic "virtue." So, does this only apply to Americans?

See, this is why people all around the world can't stand the Americans. They claim the right to decide what's right and wrong for the rest of the world, and have the veto power on actions and words of others.

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