Perhaps they shouldn’t have bashed Trump at the WWI memorial then..
Perhaps they shouldn’t have bashed Trump at the WWI memorial then..
Right? Hypocrites.
>>Perhaps they shouldn’t have bashed Trump at the WWI memorial then..
I don’t recall the French government denouncing President Obama when he flat out refused to stand with the heads of state of other nations to join with the French in denouncing the Islamic terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices.
Barack blamed the victim and said that they instigated the attack.
The Charlie Hebdo march: where were the American leaders? [UPDATE: White House response added]
By Eugene Volokh
January 11, 2015
ABC reports that the massive march in Paris included “Germany’s Angela Merkel, Britain’s David Cameron, Italy’s Matteo Renzi, Mariano Rajoy of Spain, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko, and European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker.” CNN adds “Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,” as well as “Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu [and] Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Queen Rania.” BBC reports there were “40 world leaders” present.
But President Obama wasn’t one of them; Vice-President Biden and Secretary of State Kerry apparently weren’t there, either. CNN reports that “A senior State Department official told CNN that Kerry had committed a long time ago to be the lead speaker at Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s entrepreneurship and innovation summit in India. The official said that Kerry did not want to cancel that as he continues to work on the United States’ relationship with the nation.”
Agence France Press published a list of “world political figures who have confirmed their attendance,” before the march itself. It noted, in the first sentence, that “United States President Barack Obama will not join other world leaders at Sunday’s Paris march in tribute to the victims of this week’s Islamist attacks in France, a US official told AFP,” though it included Holder as the representative of the U.S. But CNN reported that, though Attorney General Holder was in Paris “to attend a security summit on combating terrorism,” he didn’t come to the rally.
...President Obama also didn’t appear at the Washington march organized by the French Embassy; the U.S. was represented by “Victoria Nuland, assistant secretary at the Department of State.” According to Politico, “Obama wasn’t far from the march in D.C. on Sunday that wended silently along six blocks from the Newseum to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial. Instead, he spent the chilly afternoon a few blocks away at the White House, with no public schedule, no outings.” Politico adds a good deal more; if you’re interested, read the whole article (by Edward-Isaac Dovere)...
https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/11/john-kerry-charlie-hebdo-comments/
John Kerry’s Reprehensible Charlie Hebdo Comments Perfectly Reflect Obama Administration Policy
By ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
November 23, 2015 9:30 PM
...As has been widely reported, Kerry initially said there was a “legitimacy” to the mass-murder of cartoonists and writers who satirized the prophet Mohammed. Instantly realizing he’d gone too far, Kerry watered “legitimacy” down to “a rationale that you could attach yourself to somehow and say, ‘Okay, they’re really angry because of this and that.’” By contrast, Kerry claimed, there really was no “this and that” to rationalize what happened in Paris November 13, a terrorist strike he described as “absolutely indiscriminate” and not done “to aggrieve one particular sense of wrong.”
Of course, this contention is as absurd as it is offensive. Both sets of terrorist atrocities were driven by Islamic supremacist ideology.
Kerry distorted the Charlie Hebdo episode as if it had involved only a reprisal over cartoons lampooning Islam. In fact, the jihadists shot and wounded a random jogger (consistent with the call to jihad against non-Muslims), killed a police officer (consistent with the ISIS call to assassinate Western security personnel as part of that jihad), took hostages at a kosher market, killing four of them (consistent with anti-Semitism, a core theme of Islamic supremacism), and took hostages at a printing factory (again, consistent with the call to jihad).
So looked at in its totality, the jihadist operations at and around the Charlie Hebdo attack were very similar to November 13, except in scale (17 murdered in the former; 130 in the latter). Neither atrocity was “absolutely indiscriminate,” except in the judgment of an administration willfully blind to the ideological underpinnings of jihadist terror...