Posted on 10/11/2004 8:06:45 AM PDT by THJNewYorkCity
Some time ago radio (vast right wing....) was playing a clip of Ta RAY za saying to Larry King that Americans should learn to tolerate the nuisance of terrorism like the Europeans do.
It has to be something other then that comment .. most already know about and it's been talked about on the internet and TV
I have to admit .. this has my interest up
The poster got it wrong. This is the article Tammy and James Warren were discussing.
July 10, 2004 interview with Larry King on CNN
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0407/10/lkl.00.html
KING: "What do you think, Teresa, would be the effect of another terror attack on the United States, politically?"
HEINZ KERRY: "I don't know. I think most Americans subconsciously believe something's going to happen. It's a matter of when, and it's a matter of how. KING: Strange way to live, though."
HEINZ KERRY: "Yes, but, you know, Europeans have lived that way, and other people around the world have lived that way. Americans have been very safe, at least as a nation."
In an interview with Chris Matthews on Hardball on MSNBC on July 25, 2005:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5511609/
Heinz Kerry: "On the other hand, the issue of terrorism, the issue of danger, is very close and has been throughout time to Europeans— you know the Irish, English, the French with all of the North African problems they had, the Basques in Spain— so this is not something that’s alien to them. And they don’t generally go out and blame other people; they just deal with it. "
Obviously, that Chris Matthews interview was in 2004, not 2005
Clinton viewed terrorism as a law enforcement issue, as will Kerry if elected, at least until after the first major attack on his watch.
Bush views them as acts of war and responds to them as such.
I'm not sure either paradigm is entirely correct. Perhaps we need a new and different way to respond to a new and different threat.
Instead of arguing about whether terrorism is A or B, perhaps we should consider the possibility that it is G.
No freakin' way! Well if that don't beat all.
Hope the the next time Kerry says Osama the President asks about Breslin. Those terrorists are just as deadly as OBL.
Oh Darn ... guess I'm just a little eager for that October surprise
Sure. Call it G.
Then kill the motherphuckers who did it.
I'm in.
YEA back when people like him could make a BUCK off of it....
Funny that is what Chirac and Schroeder were doing...making a BUCK off of terrorists...
Every time I think about that Kerry quote I get mad on a whole host of levels. He compared terrorism to prostitution, that we'd never get rid of it, but it would be nice if we could go back to when it was just a 'nuisance'. Tell that to the Brits after the years of IRA bombs, Israel from day one, Spain and the Basque separatists. Terrorism has never been a simple nuisance. And his dismissive attitude toward prostitution is appalling. Women don't sell their bodies unless they're desperate. Kerry should lose the women's vote on that quote alone.
Kerry is a nuisance, islamofascism is a life and death struggle with only one winner.
I'm hoping the October surprise will reveal Kerry's letter to the Mullahs in Iran.
Under ANY circumstances, at ANY time, for these things to be chosen as analogies for terrorism is SKERRY.
The only time I saw Kerry truly animated during two hours of conversation was when he talked about the ability of a president to build relationships with other leaders.Coerced and bribed? Just one more case were Dems accuse us of the things THEY are guilty of.''We need to engage more directly and more respectfully with Islam, with the state of Islam, with religious leaders, mullahs, imams, clerics, in a way that proves this is not a clash with the British and the Americans and the old forces they remember from the colonial days,'' Kerry told me during a rare break from campaigning, in Seattle at the end of August. ''And that's all about your diplomacy.''
When I suggested that effecting such changes could take many years, Kerry shook his head vehemently and waved me off.
''Yeah, it is long-term, but it can be dramatically effective in the short term. It really can be. I promise you.'' He leaned his head back and slapped his thighs. ''A new presidency with the right moves, the right language, the right outreach, the right initiatives, can dramatically alter the world's perception of us very, very quickly.
<--snip-->
In all of this, Kerry intends to use as leverage America's considerable capacity for economic aid; a Kerry adviser told me, only slightly in jest, that Kerry's most tempting fantasy is to attend the G-8 summit.
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