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Kerry: 'Root Cause of Terrorism' Is Poverty
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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."


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KEYWORDS: allpropertyistheft; classwar; communismkills; cultureofcorruption; envy; fakeirishman; golddigger; marxism; nakedmarxist; poorjihadists; poverty; secstatekerry; terrorism; waronterror
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To: Sub-Driver

This is a perfect example of how our own commie rat bastard traitors will even use islamic jihad to further their own ideological ends.


41 posted on 01/15/2014 5:48:43 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Sub-Driver

“And so, the government must terrorize people into giving up their hard-earned money in order to stop terrorism.”


42 posted on 01/15/2014 5:50:02 AM PST by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be earned and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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To: Sub-Driver

The root cause of terrorism is islam


43 posted on 01/15/2014 5:50:44 AM PST by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: Sub-Driver

Is there any empirical evidence for his assertion? It strikes me as more than just counter-intuitive, but palpably falsifiable.


44 posted on 01/15/2014 5:51:02 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (In the long run, we are all dead.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Well ketchup boy, put some skin into the game. Pony up some of that money you married into...twice.


45 posted on 01/15/2014 5:51:19 AM PST by 12th_Monkey (In an alternate universe Obama still dips ice cream)
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To: Sub-Driver

Arafat, bin laden et al. all super rich


46 posted on 01/15/2014 5:51:42 AM PST by sappy (criminaldems)
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To: Sub-Driver
The poor and the poorer peoples are accused of violence, yet without equal opportunities the different forms of aggression and conflict will find a fertile terrain for growth and eventually explode.

Kerry did just visit the Vatican and now Obama is expected to visit Pope Francis. This seems to be the new message.

47 posted on 01/15/2014 5:52:15 AM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: Sub-Driver

So spread out your wife’s sta$h, maroon.


48 posted on 01/15/2014 5:52:31 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: grania

Also— a lot of the terrorists on the 9-11 planes
came from well to do families— A decent book
about being a terrorist:
“PERFECT SOLDIERS

The Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It

By Terry McDermott. HarperCollins

THE REAL TERRORIST??-

JOHN F-—ing KERRY- who ADMITTED TO WAR ATROCITIES!
ADMITTED to “ILLEGALLY invading another COUNTRY!- Cambodia”

He should be in PRISON for this-
And for ILLEGALLY meeting with the Enemy-a traitor to his country


49 posted on 01/15/2014 5:53:03 AM PST by mj1234
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To: AU72
Osama bin-Laden was a member of one of the richest families in Saudi Arabia.

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.

50 posted on 01/15/2014 5:54:18 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Sub-Driver

And in Kerry’s case, the root cause of stupidity is a Yale education.


51 posted on 01/15/2014 5:54:34 AM PST by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: Sub-Driver

once I thought his many dumb statements were just political bias, now I realize his many dumb statements are ignorance — and political.


52 posted on 01/15/2014 5:56:03 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Sub-Driver

. . . except in the case of the “domestic terrorism” of “right wing rednecks,” in which case the root cause is belief in the Bible.[/sarcasm]


53 posted on 01/15/2014 5:56:33 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Hey Hanoi boy, if this is true, why does your boss want to start importing the hell out of it into this country? Hmmmmm? No to amnesty, the number one enemy of American security.


54 posted on 01/15/2014 5:56:40 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Where are Holder's "po folks" getting the I.D.s to sign up for ObamaCare?)
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To: AU72

There is plenty of philanthropic sources to fund terrorism. Poverty doesn’t have anything to do with Terrorism. NOTHING!


55 posted on 01/15/2014 5:57:11 AM PST by Tenacious 1 (Liberals can afford for things to go well, to work, for folks to be happy. They'd be out of work.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Kerry linked poverty not only to terrorism, but to the "disenfranchisement of millions"

Disenfranchisement of what? Voting for dims in elections Juan? To think this idiot was almost elected POTUS here. We dodged a bullet on that one.

56 posted on 01/15/2014 5:57:43 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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To: P-Marlowe

did he really earn a degree from Yale, or did he receive a degree as he did his Purple Heart medals??


57 posted on 01/15/2014 5:57:56 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Mister Da

“If Kerry & I were lost in the woods, & Kerry said the way home was right I’d go left every time”

Maybe you should have used east and west


58 posted on 01/15/2014 6:00:15 AM PST by Rannug
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To: mj1234
Kerry's acts were during VietNam, and those were confusing times. He followed orders, but came home opposed to the war.

But look at McCain. He met with and supported known terrorists in Syria just a few months ago. Shouldn't that get him droned according to current US policy?

59 posted on 01/15/2014 6:01:42 AM PST by grania
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To: Sub-Driver

The root cause of poverty is probably socialists.


60 posted on 01/15/2014 6:01:47 AM PST by mongo141 (Revolution ver. 2.0, just a matter of when, not a matter of if!)
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