Posted on 09/17/2001 3:12:24 PM PDT by tallhappy
I saw this on Sunday and did not want to post on it until I had the actual transcript.
Kerry eseentially blames us for provoking the attack.
SNOW: Senator Kerry, earlier on the broadcast -- I want to go back to something you mentioned earlier. Earlier on the broadcast, Attorney General Ashcroft was talking about a series of changes he thinks we need to do to improve our domestic vigilance.
You referred to a bit of that when you were discussing money laundering. We have a series of laws to deal with drug dealers in terms of seizing their property, seizing their assets, the kinds of intelligence we can do on them, what we can do with their money and so on.
Do we need to apply that immediately to terrorists? And furthermore, do we need to be able to expand the FBI's ability to do domestic counter- intelligence?
KERRY: There is no question that we will have to change some of the laws in order to deal with terrorism. A lot of us have been trying to do that for some period of time in various sectors, and we've met with resistance because it was deemed to interfere with the normal course of business or, in some people's mind, to weigh too heavily on one side of the balance of how we view our freedoms of the country. But this, I think, has changed that. I'm confident Congress will respond.
But let me say one other thing we need to do, and some people will not probably appreciate this, but I think it's an honest statement of what the United States needs to do.
Globalization and technology have changed the perception of the United States in the world. And there are many of us who feel that we have not been doing enough or sensitive enough to the way in which we are perceived by many countries. We need to not only be tough here, we need to not only respond and ferret out Osama bin Laden, but we need to also listen. We need to also be thoughtful in some of the policies so that we can build friendships and build relationships around the globe and not be alienating quite as many people as we have, I think.
And also, we have to be be particularly sensitive to the rest of Islam and the Islamic world. This cannot be done in a way that lumps everybody into the same pool. There are distinctions here. Osama bin Laden is a perversion of Islam. In fact, the Taliban, many of the leaders of the Taliban are not even trained deeply in religiously. They don't have a deep background in religious training. They have taken Islam and they are changing Islam.
And what Islam itself needs is almost a reaffirmation, if you will. It needs to stand up and speak to the world about its peacefulness and its ability to be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
And we need to be certain that we don't make matters worse in the ways in which we choose to do this. I think that is absolutely essential. And there's much we can do in our foreign policy, in my judgment, to be much more proactive, much more thoughtful and much more sensitive to the needs of the rest of this planet.
At this time my point in posting this is not to bring the focus on Kerry. It is not time for that.
It is to focus on how some people do not have their heads screwed on right, even after this.
The ideal would be that his self absorbed petty anachronistic political views be pointed out to him and he realize he needs to change his ways.
It can happen.
He was right.
When I saw this, I turned it off. I don't know what Tony Snow said after.
If it were me I would have ended the interview right then and demanded he resign.
And apologize. We definitely need to apologize.
Reparations too. We owe everybody reparations.
I vote we send the snivelling John Kerry to Kabul dressed in sack cloth and smeared with ashes. He can crawl on his knees and belly until he finds bin Laden, licks his feet like a dog, and begs forgiveness.
Under the political lens, the argument would go like this, "The US has stood and currently stands athwart the express aims of certain Islamic sects. Therefore, these sects are fully justified in wreaking whatever degree of warlike retribution against the US they deem prudent, and in so doing, they are justified in striving to effect their ends. This is so, even if they were to kidmap children and use them as a means of attack against other innocent people."
The corallary to this is, "The Islamic sects have now and continue to interpose themselves athwart the express aims of the legitimate governments in the Mid East, and they have selected a wave of terrorism as the means to achieve their political ends. In taking any and every step to thwart their aims, even to the extent of using nuclear weapons to erradicate these individuals. This is justified, even if it means that some innocents night be killed in the process."
The humanitarian argument would go: "There are ways to sit down and resolve differences among people who have grievances. These must be the mechanisms used to resolve disagreements like these. There can be no justification for the killing of innocent people."
The problem is that the radical left argues the political , as a means of justifying or rationalizing the attack, while arguing the humanitarian as a means to render impotent any potential response.
It is a fallacious argument.
If the political justification is sufficient unto itself to mitigate or even justify the attack, then it is sufficient unto itselto justify virtually any response the US might effect.
If the humanitarian argument is to be employed, it must be employed both ways.
Give him the Meehan award.
And since when has Islam ever shown any sensitivity to any point of view not its own? I have never heard any Arab or Islamic leader personally denounce the groups that commit these acts, or denounce their leaders. I have never heard an Arab or Islamic leader advocate patience or understanding of the Jewish or American point of view. I have never heard any Arab or Islamic leader preach tolerance of other faiths.
I have heard them issue fatwah's (death sentances) against the writer of books they disagree with. I have heard them call for the deaths of jews and Americans. I have heard of them persecuting those of the christian and jewish faiths. And I have heard them whine incessently that they should not be tarred with the same brush when there isn't a one among them with the courage to stand up and accept the responsibility for the hate their religous leaders constantly spew forth.
Kerry is an ignorant bufoon, and idiots like him help to legitimize the use of terrorism by these groups by making these kind of statements.
Kerry just kissed the Democratic nomination in 2004 goodbye.
Kerry has the most dishonest HAIR in the US. Even Jesse Helms' looks appropriately fake.
My wife once said, "Look at that hair. Nobody has that much. And look at the sides, who ever heard of grey on the top and black on the sides"?
Looking at the part is also a dead giveaway.
How about a couple of renditions of what he REALLY looks like.....WITHOUT THE RUG!
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