Secretary of State John Kerry said the following in Paris at the American Embassy, Nov. 17:
“ . . . There’s something different about what happened [in Paris, Nov. 13] from Charlie Hebdo [in Paris, last January], and I think everybody would feel that. There was a sort of particularized focus and perhaps even a legitimacy in terms of — not a legitimacy, but a rationale that you could attach yourself to somehow and say, okay, they’re really angry because of this and that.”
Terrorist murderers — legitimacy? rationale? really angry?
Do not be surprised if some Americans do not trust this administration to fight terrorism totally or screen potential Syrian immigrants fully.
That the leading diplomat of the US fails to condemn terrorist murder unqualifiedly opens a window into the desiccated mentality that “understands” evil, putting this country at risk.
It’s actually a pattern. Here is an earlier, similarly perverse, exculpatory quote from Sec. Kerry, Oct. 16, 2014, at the State Dept. in honor of Eid al-Adha, the Muslim holiday:
“As I went around and met with people in the course of our discussion about the ISIL coalition, the truth is we — there wasn’t a leader I met with in the region who didn’t raise with me spontaneously the need to try to get peace between Israel and the Palestinians, because it was a cause of recruitment and of street anger and agitation that they felt — and I see a lot of heads nodding — they had to respond to. And people need to understand the connection of that. And it has something to do with humiliation and denial and absence of dignity, and Eid celebrates the opposite of that.”
Parse this as you like. What we hear is that Israel is at least partly to blame for the rise of ISIS by effectively defending itself, via humiliating checkpoints, against the type of terrorist murders that struck Paris.
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