Posted on 01/10/2011 11:02:13 PM PST by bruinbirdman
Said the incident showed America and the Arab world faced similar problems.,p.
In a television broadcast filmed before students in Abu Dhabi, Mrs Clinton was asked why the 9/11 terror attacks, the work of a handful of men, had been allowed to colour American views of a whole people.
She replied that America was "proud" of its many Muslim citizens and public servants, and said that the media exaggerated the voices of those who presented hostile views of the Muslim and Arab worlds.
She then raised the shooting at the weekend of the Arizona Democratic congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords.
"We have extremists in our country," she said. "A wonderful and incredibly brave young woman congress member was just shot by extremists in our country.
"We have the same kinds of problems, so rather than standing off of each other we should work to try and prevent the extremists wherever they are from being able to commit violence."
Ascribing the Arizona shootings to political extremism rather than the work of a mentally deranged loner has already proved controversial, and President Barack Obama avoided doing so directly in his address to the American people afterwards.
Mrs Clinton may be taking an even bigger risk in comparing the attack, even obliquely, to al-Qaeda's war on America.
She was taking part in the first event of a tour of the Middle East aimed at securing continued support for sanctions against Iran and showing American diplomatic commitment to the region. The state department was severely embarrassed by WikiLeaks cables which revealed private conversations between the region's leaders and American diplomats, often contradicting governments' official policies.
The television broadcast took the form of a sit-down interview with three women journalists from Kalam Nawaem, or Sweet Talk, a series loosely based on "The View", an
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As Vince Foster lies a smoldering in his grave.
"Extremists" - plural.
Can't wait to see her evidence of a larger conspiracy. Surely she must have some, or she wouldn't have made such an unbelievably incendiary charge.
That's an outright lie.
And she writes her material.
This woman is on some type of drug.
She just lost any hope of being president
Bunch of guys as part of a well funded global network crash 4 planes killing thousands in the process of furthering jihad against the USA.
One guy with a really troubled mental history buys a gun and shoots up a local politician he was obsessed with and dozens of bystanders.
Oh right totally same thing. The rate this is going, with Big Sis and her well noted views, just having a screen name on FR will get you on a “extremist” watch list.
What ever happened to “Decent is Patriotic”?
We're exporting hysterical dingbat journalism to the Mid East. No wonder they want to kill us.
Rep. Giffords was shot by "extremists"? Got evidence, Mrs. Clintoon?
Being an extremist herself she is an authority on the subject. Crawl back in your hole Hill and put the veil back on please
I bet she has LOTS of ideas about how to prevent "extemists" from committing violence.
Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
Lord, please tell me the 'Merican Publik is as sick to death of the Clintons as I am, that this woman is not positioning herself for another run. Please!
Maybe Bill has given her a tertiary variety of venereal disease, and she has completely lost her sanity....
Post of the day.
No limits to Hillary’s dumbassery. She’s as bad as pres Obongo. If she was President she would have been as destructive with Pelosi and Reid controlling House and Senate
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