Posted on 01/15/2014 5:25:02 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Kerry: 'Root Cause of Terrorism' Is Poverty 'In many cases...' Jeryl Bier January 15, 2014 7:12 AM
Secretary of State John Kerry covered a broad range of topics with his counterpart Pietro Parolin at the Vatican in Rome on Monday. Besides Syria, the Middle East peace process, Sudan, and Cuba, the subject of poverty came up during their discussions.
In remarks following the meeting, Kerry linked poverty not only to terrorism, but to the "disenfranchisement of millions" [emphasis added]:
We talked about the common interest of Pope Francis and President Obama in addressing poverty and extreme poverty on a global basis. The United States of America is deeply involved in efforts in Africa and in other parts of the world – in Asia, South Central Asia – to address this poverty, as is the Catholic Church. And so we have a huge common interest in dealing with this issue of poverty, which in many cases is the root cause of terrorism or even the root cause of the disenfranchisement of millions of people on this planet.
Kerry's statement echoes comments he made in October 2013 at the Global Counterterrorism Forum after terrorist attacks in both Nairobi, Kenya, and Peshawar, Pakistan: "Getting this right isn’t just about taking terrorists off the street. It’s about providing more economic opportunities for marginalized youth at risk of recruitment."
This is a perfect example of how our own commie rat bastard traitors will even use islamic jihad to further their own ideological ends.
“And so, the government must terrorize people into giving up their hard-earned money in order to stop terrorism.”
The root cause of terrorism is islam
Is there any empirical evidence for his assertion? It strikes me as more than just counter-intuitive, but palpably falsifiable.
Well ketchup boy, put some skin into the game. Pony up some of that money you married into...twice.
Arafat, bin laden et al. all super rich
Kerry did just visit the Vatican and now Obama is expected to visit Pope Francis. This seems to be the new message.
So spread out your wife’s sta$h, maroon.
Also— a lot of the terrorists on the 9-11 planes
came from well to do families— A decent book
about being a terrorist:
“PERFECT SOLDIERS
The Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It
By Terry McDermott. HarperCollins
THE REAL TERRORIST??-
JOHN F-—ing KERRY- who ADMITTED TO WAR ATROCITIES!
ADMITTED to “ILLEGALLY invading another COUNTRY!- Cambodia”
He should be in PRISON for this-
And for ILLEGALLY meeting with the Enemy-a traitor to his country
Al-Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri was a surgeon before turning terrorist
6 Doctors Among 8 Held In U.K. Bomb Plot
It is not the Muslim world's poor who run the terrorist networks. It is their elites who run terrorism, and (more importantly) FINANCE it.
And in Kerry’s case, the root cause of stupidity is a Yale education.
once I thought his many dumb statements were just political bias, now I realize his many dumb statements are ignorance — and political.
. . . except in the case of the “domestic terrorism” of “right wing rednecks,” in which case the root cause is belief in the Bible.[/sarcasm]
Hey Hanoi boy, if this is true, why does your boss want to start importing the hell out of it into this country? Hmmmmm? No to amnesty, the number one enemy of American security.
There is plenty of philanthropic sources to fund terrorism. Poverty doesn’t have anything to do with Terrorism. NOTHING!
Disenfranchisement of what? Voting for dims in elections Juan? To think this idiot was almost elected POTUS here. We dodged a bullet on that one.
did he really earn a degree from Yale, or did he receive a degree as he did his Purple Heart medals??
“If Kerry & I were lost in the woods, & Kerry said the way home was right I’d go left every time”
Maybe you should have used east and west
But look at McCain. He met with and supported known terrorists in Syria just a few months ago. Shouldn't that get him droned according to current US policy?
The root cause of poverty is probably socialists.
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