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August 13, 2013 - 5:29 PM

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By Terence P. Jeffrey
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Secretary of State John Kerry (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

(CNSNews.com) - Speaking to State Department personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia, Brazil, on Tuesday, Secretary of State John Kerry said that "this little thing called the Internet ... makes it much harder to govern."
He also said that "ever since the end of the Cold War, forces have been unleashed that were tamped down for centuries by dictators."
"I’m a student of history, and I love to go back and read a particularly great book like [Henry] Kissinger’s book about diplomacy where you think about the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the balance of power and how difficult it was for countries to advance their interests and years and years of wars," Kerry said to a gathering of State Department employees and their families.

"And we sometimes say to ourselves, boy, aren’t we lucky," Kerry continued.
"Well, folks," he said, "ever since the end of the Cold War, forces have been unleashed that were tamped down for centuries by dictators, and that was complicated further by this little thing called the internet and the ability of people everywhere to communicate instantaneously and to have more information coming at them in one day than most people can process in months or a year.

"It makes it much harder to govern, makes it much harder to organize people, much harder to find the common interest," said Kerry, "and that is complicated by a rise of sectarianism and religious extremism that is prepared to employ violent means to impose on other people a way of thinking and a way of living that is completely contrary to everything the United States of America has ever stood for. So we need to keep in mind what our goals are and how complicated this world is that we’re operating in."



In other words our Secretary of State favors Dictatorships over Democracy, IMO he should be relieved of his position making a statement like that ... Reciprocity.

"It makes it much harder to govern, makes it much harder to organize people, much harder to find the common interest," said Kerry, "and that is complicated by a rise of sectarianism and religious extremism that is prepared to employ violent means to impose on other people a way of thinking and a way of living that is completely contrary to everything the United States of America has ever stood for. So we need to keep in mind what our goals are and how complicated this world is that we’re operating in."

Wow, scary stuff, I guess in a word the internet makes it much harder for people like him to lie as truth does complicate matters.

This thing called the Internet allows people not just in this country, but the entire planet to share, thoughts ,Ideas, news and threw this mechanism has exposed corruption and wrong doing no matter where it is and that is a good thing. Mr Kerry seems to have a problem with light shining into dark spaces for everyone to see. The Arab Spring needed to happen no matter what the outcome is. Its their country and up their people to decide the political outcome, its not up to us. Jefferson stated "avoid foreign intanglements" for a reason.