President Obama: Our fight against violent extremism ("battle for hearts and minds")

LA Times ^ | February 17, 2015 | Barack Obama

[maggief]

The United States has made significant gains against terrorism. We've decimated the core al Qaeda leadership, strengthened homeland security and worked to prevent another large-scale attack like 9/11.

At the same time, the threat has evolved. The al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen actively plots against us. Since 9/11, terrorists have murdered U.S. citizens overseas, including in the attacks in Benghazi, Libya. Here in the United States, Americans have been killed at Ft. Hood and during the Boston Marathon.

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We do not yet know why three young people, who were Muslim Americans, were brutally killed in Chapel Hill, N.C. But we know that many Muslim Americans across our country are worried and afraid. Americans of all faiths and backgrounds must continue to stand united with a community in mourning and insist that no one should ever be targeted because of who they are, what they look like, or how they worship.

Our campaign to prevent people around the world from being radicalized to violence is ultimately a battle for hearts and minds. With this week's summit, we'll show once more that — unlike terrorists who only offer misery and death — it is our free societies and diverse communities that offer the true path to opportunity, justice and dignity.

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I had that exchange with a lib just yesterday. He claims that the shooter is a republican kkk member committing a hate crime. Still believes the kkk was started by republicans.
There’s no getting through their ignorant hatred of anybody who isn’t a lib

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I Love My Job!

I have a Promising, Responsible, Socially helpful, Essential and Rewarding Job at the Ministry of Truth!.

And i LOVE it! I REALLY REALLY REALLY DO!

Winston

[MrB]

Dalek

See if this description fits any ideology you know:

The Daleks Listeni/ˈdɑːlɛks/ are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants principally portrayed in the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who. The Daleks were conceived by science-fiction writer Terry Nation and first appeared in the 1963 Doctor Who serial The Daleks, in the shells designed by Raymond Cusick. Within the programme narrative, Daleks are an extraterrestrial race of cyborgs created by the scientist Davros during the final years of a thousand-year war against the Thals. He genetically modified his race (known as the Kaleds), and integrated them with a tank-like, robotic shell. His final modification was to remove their ability to feel pity, compassion, or remorse. The Daleks soon came to view themselves as the supreme race in the universe and began a conquest of universal domination and extermination. Various storylines portray them as having had every emotion removed except hate, leaving them with a desire to purge the universe of all non-Dalek life. Collectively they are the greatest enemies of the series' protagonist, the Time Lord known as the Doctor. During a conflict with the Time Lords, the Daleks were almost completely killed off. This took place off-screen between the 1996 television movie and the 2005 revived series, and was depicted in the 50th anniversary special "The Day of the Doctor". Their defeat was a plot point in several episodes. They are popularly known for their catchphrase "Exterminate!" and are a well-recognised reference in British popular culture.

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Obama is like a person who sits at a gambling table, sauced up and stupidly giggling, bragging about his winnings, while the casino drains him dry,...

Like a casino, ISIS, ISIL, IS is running the table, collecting all like minded made men while O theorizes that what we face is a battle of the minds. He has no comprehension of the evil of Islam itself. If you took ten fairly intelligent people, thinking of becoming a muslim, gave them the koran, had them read it front to back, then have them tell you what they thought, probably eight or nine out of ten would say that ISIS is more in line with what “The Prophet” intended than what Obama wished Islam to be.

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Yeah...I know that John Hurt played Winston and Richard Burton Played O’Brien.

Just wanted to clear that up.

[DaveA37]

“We’ve decimated the core al Qaeda leadership”..

Really? Perhaps that’s why odumbo released all those Muslims from GITMO. Al Qaeda needed new leaders?

Words cannot describe how much hate I have for that Muslim bastard, petulant child.

[skinkinthegrass]

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Oh My...i just read that Richard Burton DIED in 1984!

(The year, not the movie)

How weird is THAT?

(Off Topic...i know. Sorry)

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Me Too.

And i have never hated anyone before, in my whole life, so it is a new (and VERY unpleasant) feeling for me. (sigh)

[Lazamataz]

Nothing changes hearts and minds like a good old-fashioned fusion warhead.

[slorunner]

They don’t get the basic point that To win their hearts and minds YOU FIRST HAVE TO GET THEM BY THE SHORTS AND CURLY!!!

[Thank You Rush]

You know if that jerk had one working brain cell, he’d be dangerous. How could we be so lucky he landed on our shores? Somewhere, somehow, I guess we all screwed up to deserve him...