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."
The root cause of poverty is terrorism.
It certainly interferes with commerce which
is the only solution to poverty.
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.
John Kerry was also a 'radical' from the upper classes. Radicals are usually men who can't equal their fathers in 'building and creating wealth' or building and creating anything. So they turn to destroying - which is easier. 'Daddy' put those UK bomb doctors through medical school after all...
There is so much BS in that ignorant and ridiculous statement it defies even minimal common sense.
Uh... look you drunk Hurman Munster looking moron... islam... islam... islam.
Oh and traitor kerry... WAS BIN LADEN POOR... you imbecile?
For some people affluence distracts them from their spiritual and moral commitments so in theory it could be correct. We can’t give all these terrorists enough money to make that change. At this point everything we give would go to Jihad. As someone else said bin Laden was from a filthy rich family. So Kerry the Messiah is clueless and therefore dangerous. He has no understanding.
Obama is destroying so many American jobs and reducing so many millions of workers to a life on the dole. Kerry says we can expect more terrorism in USA. AND obamas importing millions of people from terrorist countries directly into America.
Arafat left a fortune of a couple of $billions. Where did he amass that? From handouts from the West intended to help the Palestinians which he redirected to his own secret bank accounts.
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Kennedy and the Peace Corp had the right idea — teach a man to fish — but too much of the intended aid money doesn't get to those in need, but does manage to find its way into secret bank accounts.
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There are organizations, groups, foreign governments and their officials who make an industry out of scamming the West out of money.
Obama must have grown up in poverty.
0bama and the Pope are meeting soon. I can see where that will go.
And I suppose Kerry can point to all the terrorists living in poverty in the United States. The stats should be huge according to dem politicians who scream about our high poverty rates.
Who are these people - Kerry etal? Are they even members of the human race?
Kerry is a card carrying moron.
The root cause of collectivism is foolishness and wickedness.
Yes - they are evil.
What a shame that a large enough percentage of the American people haven’t a clue what is going on. They don’t even recognize that their country is under attack from within by both evil people and useful idiots.
Really Kerry? You’re not poor.
The lies continue. Are 99% of Muslims in poverty? Then why do 99% of terrorist acts come from Muslims? Is Saudi Arabia In poverty? Why did the 911 terrorists come from that “poverty stricken” nation? Kerry TOO is just a liberal liar.
Israel is right! ...Kerry IS a dumb-ass!
If that is true, then Haiti, Gambia and Congo Brazzaville must be hotbeds of terrorism.
Oh great. World wide welfare.
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