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Kerry: You Have to Understand Terrorists to Defeat Them
cnsnews ^ | Feb. 19, 2015 | Patrick Goodenough

Posted on 02/20/2015 6:44:31 AM PST by PROCON

(CNSNews.com) – Declaring that “you cannot defeat what you don’t understand,” Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday suggested some reasons why tens of thousands of young people are flocking to join terrorist groups in the Middle East.

Among some of the likely motivations he listed were deprivation, a desire to avenge the death of a loved one, a response to “acts of discrimination or repression,” the desire to belong to a group, and “rebellion against anonymity.”

Absent from the list was any belief – misguided or otherwise – that joining a terrorist group was an Islamic duty or demonstration of religious zeal. (He did make reference to proselytizing in prison.)

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: incompetence; isis; johnkerry; wot
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And I, John Kerry, am the foremost expert on fighting terrorism.....sing it James.


1 posted on 02/20/2015 6:44:31 AM PST by PROCON
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To: PROCON

They just want good jobs with good benefits, right Hanoi Boi?


2 posted on 02/20/2015 6:45:44 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The Illegal Aliens' Message to Americans. Hands Up, Don't Breathe!)
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To: PROCON

1, 2, 3, what are we fighting for ?


3 posted on 02/20/2015 6:46:08 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: PROCON

quote “you cannot defeat what you don’t understand”

huh?

what kind of tripe is that!?

Give me a gun, I blow the murderers brains out, and I never for one second had to “understand” him. But he is defeated.


4 posted on 02/20/2015 6:49:23 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
LOL, not many of the young'uns here would get that.

The Eastern world...it is exploding...violence raring....

5 posted on 02/20/2015 6:52:16 AM PST by PROCON (Always give 100%---unless you're donating blood.)
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To: PROCON

O’Neil/Corsi exposed johnSkerry’s “Patriotism” in Vietnam and to the world!!!


6 posted on 02/20/2015 6:52:28 AM PST by danamco (-)
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To: PROCON

You have to understand traitors to defeat them.


7 posted on 02/20/2015 6:54:15 AM PST by jetson (Can I catch you a delicious bass...)
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Kerry: You Have to Understand Terrorists to Defeat Them

Which clearly disqualifies everybody in the Obama administration from playing any role whatsoever in the war against Islamic terrorism.

8 posted on 02/20/2015 6:55:25 AM PST by Maceman
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To: PROCON
Doesn't say much for Kerry's Yale University degree if he still doesn't understand islamic terrorism.
9 posted on 02/20/2015 7:00:59 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: PROCON

You have to understand them to defeat them????

You can’t even name them. You’ve got to be kidding.


10 posted on 02/20/2015 7:05:02 AM PST by dan on the right
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To: PROCON
This lying and denial by our Sunni POTUS and his Muslim Brotherhood buds is forcing leaders from other countries to take matters in their hands re killing off Isis. These good leaders will not tolerate ISIS and its supporters.
11 posted on 02/20/2015 7:06:41 AM PST by Grampa Dave (When will Sisi, Bibi, King Abdullah & ?, take out Isis in our White House, AG Dept, CIA, & State?)
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To: TexasCajun

We sure understand Kerry, Obama, Hillary, and the rest of the lunatic liberals.


12 posted on 02/20/2015 7:09:06 AM PST by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: PROCON

So, Fraud, when is the James Taylor scheduled for?


13 posted on 02/20/2015 7:09:56 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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I do understand them...

They are muslims who want to take over the planet and kill everyone who is not muslim.

How hard is that?


14 posted on 02/20/2015 7:10:06 AM PST by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz 2016 (for 16 years of conservative bliss))
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To: PROCON
You have to understand them like an oncologist understands cancer, not in your and Obama's kumbaya, let's hug it out method you leftover 60s hippie. Similarly, I would never go to an oncologist who refused to use the word “cancer” for fear of offending the malignant cells.
15 posted on 02/20/2015 7:10:59 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Darth Obama on 529 plans: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.)
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To: PROCON
Looking for the enemy...


16 posted on 02/20/2015 7:11:08 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Grampa Dave

” This lying and denial by our Sunni POTUS and his Muslim Brotherhood buds is forcing leaders from other countries to take matters in their hands re killing off Isis.”

It has been that way for years.


17 posted on 02/20/2015 7:13:45 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: stephenjohnbanker

With ISIS serial killers acting in full violence, the leaders of the countries impacted by their violence are taking matters of killing ISIS members in their hands.


18 posted on 02/20/2015 7:17:22 AM PST by Grampa Dave (When will Sisi, Bibi, King Abdullah & ?, take out Isis in our White House, AG Dept, CIA, & State?)
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To: PROCON
Kerry introduced the topic of what motivates terror recruits.

“Why do people make what to many of us would seem to be an utterly wrongheaded choice and become the kind of terrorists that we’re seeing?” he asked. “It’s a question that we need to approach with humility, but also with determination, because you cannot defeat what you don’t understand.”

“Certainly, there is no single answer,” Kerry continued. “In our era, poisonous ideas can come from almost anywhere – from parents, teachers, friends, preachers, politicians – from the pretty woman on a radical website who lures people or the man in the next cell who proselytizes while in prison.

“They might grow from pictures seen on the nightly news or from acts of discrimination or repression that you don’t think much about on the day of occurrence, but which come back to haunt. It could come from the desire to avenge the death of a loved one,” he said.

“In some cases, they may come from a lost job or from the contrast between one family’s empty dinner plate and a fancy restaurant’s lavish menu. The poison might even come from within, in the form of rebellion against anonymity, the desire to belong to a group, people who want a moment of visibility and identity, or the hunger for black-and-white answers to problems that are very complex in a remarkably more complicated world.”

"What the Hell is that freaking moron talking about?!"


19 posted on 02/20/2015 7:20:36 AM PST by COBOL2Java ("God save America" - we are at the dawn of a new dark age)
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To: PROCON

I wish everyone of these morons would go to Iraq with a handful of daisies and understanding and see where that gets them.


20 posted on 02/20/2015 7:21:58 AM PST by cincinnati65
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