Posted on 04/24/2013 10:47:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
America’s top diplomat gets so many things wrong here that it’s hard to know where to start. He’s in Brussels, and during a press conference the subject of radicalization came up. Secretary of State John Kerry gets out in front of the facts.
The question from the reporter, according to a transcript provided by the State Department, was, “Sir, with the problem we have that young people go to Syria (inaudible), does that matter also to the U.S., do you have the same problem?”
“Well, of course we have the same problem. We just had a young person who went to Russia, Chechnya, who blew people up in Boston. So he didn’t stay where he went, but he learned something where he went and he came back with a willingness to kill people,” said Kerry.
That is suspected, but not yet proven. Jihadists don’t necessarily have to travel the world to become jihadists, not when the Internet can bring bin Laden and Awlaki back from the dead to exhort them to kill. There’s still the matter of where the Boston bombers learned to build their bombs, which could also have happened on the Internet or in Chechnya or someplace else. We just don’t know yet.
From there, Kerry goes off into an odd, one-world riff.
I think the world has had enough of people who have no belief system, no policy for jobs, no policy for education, no policy for rule of law, but who just want to kill people because they don’t like what they see. There’s not room for that. That’s what we’ve been fighting against after all of the wars of the 20th century. Now we’re in the 21st century, and it’s time for a different organizational principle. And we need to, all of us, do a better job of communicating to people what the options of life are. And we’re open. Democracies are open to people participating in the democracy, not killing people. And so I hope that we can all figure out how we translate these better opportunities more effectively in our politics.
People having “no belief system” isn’t the problem. It’s what they do believe that becomes the problem. Osama bin Laden and Pol Pot both had strong and easily identifiable belief systems. They were also mass killers. Hitler, Mao, Mussolini, Stalin…they all had belief systems. The Iranian mullahs, Hizballah, Hamas…they all have belief systems. Whatever Kerry is trying to say there, he isn’t making a lick of sense. None of those people or the Tsarnaevs kill just “because they don’t like what they see.” They kill, at least in part, as a means to bring about the kind of change that they do believe in.
That phrase — “people who have no belief system” — is a means of absolving groups that preach killing, and the PR groups that aid them, and the people who voluntarily fund them, and the governments that still won’t put a stop to it.
It’s not the lack of jobs or education policies that cause terrorism, any more than a lack of belief fuels terrorism. That Kerry believes that to be the case is terrifying. This man is in charge of our international relationships and has a strong say on how we project ourselves to the world. He’s inept. He doesn’t fundamentally understand the world. He’s a rube who sounds smart because he speaks with a Brahmin accent.
From there, Kerry says this: “Now we’re in the 21st century, and it’s time for a different organizational principle.” What does that even mean? Should we re0rder the world to the terrorists’ liking? Or should we surrender our sovereignty to an undemocratic entity like the EU? What is Kerry driving at? It’s doubtful that he even knows.
So atheists should be on a watch list? Okey dokey.
wow. Denial is strong with libs
Our entire government needs an enema, and fast!!!
I apologize on behalf of all MAssholes for ever electing this stiff to public office.
No, Kerry. You’re the one with no belief system. These guys have a belief system—it’s just an evil one.
Not really. Atheists are some of the most faithful people on the planet. They have faith in Humanism, the belief that humans and human reason is the source of all truth.
That's what we've been saying Kerry baby.
Strange how we have two of the most powerful people in the White House who make no sense when they speak! Opps three Biden, oh yea he’s just out there!
Why hasn’t 0 selected Bill Ayres for Terror Czar? At least we would have a knowledgeble person with first hand experience with Bombs and the types of people that perpetrate these types of crimes.
As usual Kerry is pushing Communism. That is the fighting the 20th Century he is referring to. To Kerry the 20th Century was all about bringing forth the Communist Utopia.
He believes that all of the violence in the world is the oppressed minorities fighting their oppression against the injustice of Capitalism. He is suggesting that these oppressed minorities should be getting themselves politically active instead of expressing their frustrations violently.
Of course as usual Kerry is full of it.
Roger that, but it appears that the Marxist in Chief has got the Peter Principle on warp drive with the people he surrounds himself with. This is not good. At all. We are all in dire danger from our enemies foreign and domestic.
Pray for America
It is a matter of shame to even mention this creatures name. He who is forever linked to sedition and or treason. One can always use the terms “State Department.”
Now isn't it just possible, Sec Kerry, that he went there already wanting to kill people? Sec Kerry, you have to face it maybe he wanted to fight for his religion. Jews fight for their religion, Catholics limit their fighting to abortion providers, and Protestants fight the Papists.
If this guy didn't like this country, he could have stayed where he went. He said it was because we attack Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan. That's pretty clear. He wanted to kill us for that. Probably thinks God sent him. He was willing to die. Watch out, there are probably others. They are not disaffected, yuts.
incredibly stupid!
it is their “belief system” that is the entire problem!!!
the entire world knows this, from bitter experience,
“Allah Ahkbar!”
and then the bombs go off
Today’s talking points memo is that the killers were “lone wolves”. Sort of a variant on the “Youtube video made them do it”. Kerry is just babbling on and working the talking points into it.
He’s partially right. In the name of “tolerance” and “diversity”, we’ve driven many of the younger generations away from any real religious belief, which leaves them open to recruitment into cults — and Islam is a cult far more so than it is a religion.
Somebody needs to tell the Secretary of State that the boilerplate text is “U.S. wars and presence in Muslim lands.”
Did he not get the memo?
Finally, a member of Obozo's administration who tells the truth about Obozo's administration.
>>Wasn’t he in Vietnam ?
I think he spent more time serving North Viet Nam<<
I think he was searing meat there — or something...
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