Posted on 01/10/2011 11:02:13 PM PST by bruinbirdman
Said the incident showed America and the Arab world faced similar problems.,p.
In a television broadcast filmed before students in Abu Dhabi, Mrs Clinton was asked why the 9/11 terror attacks, the work of a handful of men, had been allowed to colour American views of a whole people.
She replied that America was "proud" of its many Muslim citizens and public servants, and said that the media exaggerated the voices of those who presented hostile views of the Muslim and Arab worlds.
She then raised the shooting at the weekend of the Arizona Democratic congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords.
"We have extremists in our country," she said. "A wonderful and incredibly brave young woman congress member was just shot by extremists in our country.
"We have the same kinds of problems, so rather than standing off of each other we should work to try and prevent the extremists wherever they are from being able to commit violence."
Ascribing the Arizona shootings to political extremism rather than the work of a mentally deranged loner has already proved controversial, and President Barack Obama avoided doing so directly in his address to the American people afterwards.
Mrs Clinton may be taking an even bigger risk in comparing the attack, even obliquely, to al-Qaeda's war on America.
She was taking part in the first event of a tour of the Middle East aimed at securing continued support for sanctions against Iran and showing American diplomatic commitment to the region. The state department was severely embarrassed by WikiLeaks cables which revealed private conversations between the region's leaders and American diplomats, often contradicting governments' official policies.
The television broadcast took the form of a sit-down interview with three women journalists from Kalam Nawaem, or Sweet Talk, a series loosely based on "The View", an
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I hope Hillary was serious about ending her political career after she leaves her position as Secretary of State. If not, this appallingly stupid comment will come back to haunt her.
What an insensitive idiot.
Are you saying Hill likes to get liquored up? I’ve never heard that.
“The rate this is going, with Big Sis and her well noted views, just having a screen name on FR will get you on a “extremist” watch list.”
I have regarded that as a given since around 1992.
The Secretary of State of the United States of America is in Abu Dhabi doing dog and pony shows for schoolchildren?
How humiliating—for the Hildebeeste and for us.
If you stick to her analogy, then the political left are the terrorists given that this guy was a leftist.
Saying Hillary and/or the Left is insane or has taken leave of their senses is a debate ender...and solves nothing. They are not insane, they are evil and have a perspective that is completely appropriate for their nature.
What Hillary is saying is that she does not attribute blame to Muslims for 9/11 but holds the Judeo/Christian world responsible.
The tie that binds the Left and the Islamic world is what is known as the Spirit of the AntiChrist. They both hate the Judeo/Christian world precisely because they hate its God and its Messiah. Whether or not the Left and its Islamic brothers consciously know why they believe as they believe is irrelevant. This is the single salient feature they share...and we have been warned for thousands of years by the Prophets.
FU you demagogic old moonbat! Extremism is selling ICBM technology for a couple hundred grand in campaign cash.
Is this a convoluted way of saying there might be a Muslim public servant out there some where who is not a US Citizen? I wonder who she could be referring to? And just who are these public servants(PLURAL!!!!!!)? Can anybody name one besides Keith Elison?
It should be further noted that she did not say, "that America was "proud" of its many Muslim citizens and non-Muslim public servants"...
[”A wonderful and incredibly brave young woman congress member was just shot by extremists in our country.”
That’s an outright lie.]
You forget that when this piece of work lies, she really only mispeaks.
How very precise of Hildebeest. I guess the shooter were "extremists." Extremely mentally ill.
More sloppy thinking from the left.
She had no chance of being president; look at her. Maybe if we were back in the days of radio.
I wonder if the Arabs of Abu Dhabi think the congresswoman supporting the right to kill an unborn child was the extremist?
but the Ft. Attacks..crickets churping by this adminstration for days!!..
She was shot by a left wing extremist.
Good, now we never have to worry about her running for president. She just killed any chance of that. OOOPS I used the word “killed” that means I’m a right winger out to commit mayhem.
The correct answer is this ‘handful of men’ claimed to be doing the will of, and on behalf of, their religion and no one from the religion spoke out to condemn their actions or discredit their claims.
Any other response is spin, ingenious and just plain BS.
IMHO
An impressive collection of photos of her heinous.
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