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Kerry on Terrorist Motivation: 'Desire to Belong to a Group' or Due to a 'Lost Job'(Video)
CNS.com ^ | February 19, 2015 | Patrick Goodenough

Posted on 02/19/2015 6:30:10 PM PST by lbryce

Declaring that “you cannot defeat what you don’t understand,” Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday suggested some reasons why tens of thousands of young people are flocking to join terrorist groups in the Middle East.

Among some of the likely motivations he listed were deprivation, a desire to avenge the death of a loved one, a response to “acts of discrimination or repression,” the desire to belong to a group, and “rebellion against anonymity.”

Absent from the list was any belief – misguided or otherwise – that joining a terrorist group was an Islamic duty or demonstration of religious zeal. (He did make reference to proselytizing in prison.)

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hanoijohn; hoofinmouthdisease; kerry; motivation; traitor
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To: Diogenesis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47E2tfK5QAg


21 posted on 02/19/2015 7:23:04 PM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: BlackAdderess

Yes, very much so, to the effect that as of this moment, the Saudis are building a 600 mile 10 meter high fence (just like the Israelis) to prevent ISIS from over running the country. In fact, ISIS, who the Saudis had once supported consider the whoring Wahabis unworthy as ‘Guardian of the holy Places’ and have threatened to exile, if not kill them from Saudi Arabia.

The same thing happened with osama Bein Laden. He wanted the Saudis out because they allowed the infidel american armed forces stationed there during the first Iraqi War. Jewish soldiers, too.


22 posted on 02/19/2015 7:25:17 PM PST by lbryce (:Obama:Misbegotten, Godforsaken Bastard Offspring of Satan And Medusa.)
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To: FReepers; Patriots; FRiends




Hey Kerry! CASE CLOSED


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23 posted on 02/19/2015 7:28:35 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: lbryce

Yeah, that’s what it is, John (Eyes rolling) the world is losing their minds


24 posted on 02/19/2015 7:32:22 PM PST by realcleanguy
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To: lbryce

so that’s why the founder of islam engaged in terrorist attacks...he wanted to belong to a group????


25 posted on 02/19/2015 7:34:46 PM PST by RginTN
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To: lbryce

dear Kommunist Kerry,
(who led the Vietnam Vets against the war gang),

Your statement of:
“you cannot defeat what you don’t understand”
doesn’t fly, because we did a heckuva job with the japanese!!!!
We didn’t try to understand them. We didn’t try to think that they needed jobs.
No, we went, and shot, bombed, grenaded, napalmed, vaporized, and stabbed every one of them, until they submitted in total surrender!!!!


26 posted on 02/19/2015 7:37:21 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: lbryce

What will Kerry do when ISIS tells him to stop insulting them ,LOL


27 posted on 02/19/2015 7:38:35 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: lbryce
The leader of ISIS showed his respect for Kerry's "understanding" by ridiculing him as an "uncircumcised geezer."
28 posted on 02/19/2015 7:46:39 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard

I don’t know if he’s circumcised. He may very well be. It was very recently reported of his discovery that he was Jewish.


29 posted on 02/19/2015 7:49:23 PM PST by lbryce (:Obama:Misbegotten, Godforsaken Bastard Offspring of Satan And Medusa.)
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To: lbryce

Delusional effing idiots.


30 posted on 02/19/2015 8:00:11 PM PST by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: BlackAdderess
...the desire to belong to a group, and “rebellion against anonymity.”

LOL - you're right. That's more 'Kerry' than 'muslim'...

31 posted on 02/19/2015 8:10:44 PM PST by GOPJ (If you can't get on the high horse for men burned alive and children raped, what's the horse for?)
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To: lbryce

Declaring that “you cannot defeat what you don’t understand,” Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday

Well I totally agree with John Kerry. Until our Goverment understands and admits that this is exactly Islam and it is a course on the earth with the purpode of detroying freedom and liberty we can not destroy it.........


32 posted on 02/19/2015 8:33:03 PM PST by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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To: lbryce

this reminds me of Biden or Harry Reid saying that junk mail made old people connected to the rest of the world or something


33 posted on 02/19/2015 8:33:45 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Diogenesis

I wish you were right. But the only way that could happen is if a bunch of retired generals somehow got the army to follow them.


34 posted on 02/19/2015 10:00:05 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy. And so are RINO voters.)
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To: lbryce

Kerry is Grubering himself...


35 posted on 02/19/2015 10:08:40 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall no)
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To: Diogenesis

What part of the lazy islamic man who forces women to work for him doesn’t he get?


36 posted on 02/19/2015 10:11:08 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall no)
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To: Maceman; lbryce; 2ndDivisionVet; no-to-illegals; SunkenCiv; All

Burning alive may have been a new low. What is not understood is that ISIL does not have conventional goals. Rather if aims to precipitate the end times in the Syrian town of Dabiq, with the “Great Battle.” The worse their acts, the sooner the final battle will take place. See below:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/16/opinion/bergen-isis-enemies/

On the other hand, Kerry may be right about what motivates young men to volunteer for ISIL. I wonder how many become disillusioned once they actually learn ISIL’s true goals, not the Caliphate, but the END.


37 posted on 02/20/2015 1:27:35 AM PST by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks gleeaikin. Kerry’s pretty much always wrong, and this isn’t an exception. Scratching a little bit on the personal histories of the losers who volunteer for ISIS would, I believe, turn up nothing but (to borrow a phrase from PJ O’Rourke) bone-idle bums. In OPEC countries everyone eats, has health care (unless they spit on the sidewalk or peek under a burkah, then they only get attention from a doctor after the flogging), place to live, etc, all from the corporate state.

To squelch jihad, we need to take away the money, not give them more. If they had to struggle to earn a living as many of us do — not the Ferguson rioters, or the Trayvon rioters, or the Occutards, but many of us — they wouldn’t be jihadists, they’d be working for a living. Lurch, Zero, Marie Barf, and the rest of those morons aren’t interested in stopping jihad in the first place, but their idea of giving them MORE money isn’t going to work, any more than it has worked in the negotiations (a.k.a. surrender) over the Iranian nuclear weapons program.


38 posted on 02/20/2015 6:02:15 AM PST by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: lbryce
As a side note, I heard on this mornings news, that one of the religious rulers in Iran, told his negositator to stop yelling so loud at Kerry. It was disturbing him
39 posted on 02/20/2015 6:07:41 AM PST by mware
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To: mware

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister has been told by the country’s supreme leader to control his temper during nuclear talks with Western diplomats, Iranian media reported Saturday.

Mohammad Javad Zarif admitted that he has often raised his voice during meetings with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry - sometimes so much their bodyguards would enter the room to make sure everything was all right.

Zarif said Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on all state matters in Iran, told him to speak softly and with a smile - the same as he would in public.


40 posted on 02/20/2015 6:10:48 AM PST by mware
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