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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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To: PROCON

He’s right. I am 100% behind John Kerry, because he has zeroed in on the problem.

Black Jack Pershing understood Islamic terrorists.


21 posted on 02/20/2015 7:22:47 AM PST by Rinnwald
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To: cincinnati65

I’ll give you a daisy a day dear
I’ll give you a daisy a day
I’ll love you until the rivers run still
And watch all our heads roll away...


22 posted on 02/20/2015 7:27:16 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: PROCON

Isn’t that Hillary’s line?


23 posted on 02/20/2015 7:31:02 AM PST by loveliberty2
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To: FlingWingFlyer

They want more Marxism just like Americans.

Pray America is waking


24 posted on 02/20/2015 7:36:26 AM PST by bray (Palin/Cruz to the WH)
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To: PROCON
Oh, God

How embarrassing that was.....

25 posted on 02/20/2015 7:36:35 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: PROCON

26 posted on 02/20/2015 7:47:43 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Don’t forget midnight basketball and virgins.


27 posted on 02/20/2015 7:49:52 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: Grampa Dave

Of course, the Mombasa MF ain’t gonna help them.


28 posted on 02/20/2015 7:53:45 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: PROCON
Sounds like another round of KICK THE CAT is in John's future!

 photo KERRYKICKINGKITTY_zpsba954a0e.jpg

29 posted on 02/20/2015 8:08:32 AM PST by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

You are right. We don’t need to understand them, we just need to know where to point the gun.

The problem is we have a P(OS)resident who refuses to even point his finger at these bastards.


30 posted on 02/20/2015 8:10:16 AM PST by penguinhunter
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To: PROCON

Therapy?

Maybe translation broadcasts of Oprah and Dr. Phil.

TV reception might be difficult. Does ISIL/ISIS allow TVs? There were some reports of them beheading some teens for watching a soccer game.

And they used acid to deface several young women who showed their faces in public.

And reports of them harvesting organs from captives — organ harvesting is a lucrative business, if one has a good stream of sources. As long as the sources are infidels, of course.

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Yeah, understanding.

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31 posted on 02/20/2015 8:22:34 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: penguinhunter
You are right. We don’t need to understand them, we just need to know where to point the gun.

That's the Norman Swarzkopf approach. Stormin' Norman new how to defeat them.

However, John Pershing defeated them, and pacified them, using inherent weaknesses in their religion.

32 posted on 02/20/2015 8:34:45 AM PST by Rinnwald
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To: PROCON

I feel safer now that Kerry is all over it.


33 posted on 02/20/2015 8:34:52 AM PST by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: KarlInOhio

Re: post #16
I first saw that pic posted on FR - it was a ‘caption this photo’ thread...

I still remember my favorite caption, “Kerry examines Ted Kennedy’s colon. Ha!


34 posted on 02/20/2015 8:36:16 AM PST by heterosupremacist
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To: PROCON; All

Remember the bully on the playground? You didn’t have to understand him. You simply had to punch him in the nose to teach him to leave you alone! In this case, the anti has risen to terrifying heights. We don’t need jobs for jihadists, nor do we need to understand them. They are the ones who must learn to respect others. Clearly, they don’t and won’t. So the response is to destroy them.


35 posted on 02/20/2015 8:37:50 AM PST by Frangibled (Paranoia - Surest sign of sanity between 2014 and 2016...........)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Calling Sky Marshal Tehat Meru. Sky Marshal Tehat Meru pick up the white courtesy phone please.


36 posted on 02/20/2015 8:56:56 AM PST by Chuckster (The longer I live the less I care about what you think.)
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To: jetson
You have to understand traitors to defeat them.

I understand traitors, you horse faced turd. In other words, I understand you, you horse faced traitorous turd. Your eyeless crow eaten carcass should still be hanging next to hanoi jane.

FMCDH(BITS)

37 posted on 02/20/2015 9:17:41 AM PST by nothingnew (Hemmer and MacCullum are the worst on FNC)
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To: PROCON

38 posted on 02/20/2015 12:17:24 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: nothingnew
You have to understand traitors to defeat them.

I understand traitors, you horse faced turd. In other words, I understand you, you horse faced traitorous turd. Your eyeless crow eaten carcass should still be hanging next to hanoi jane.

I second the motion.

39 posted on 02/20/2015 12:54:18 PM PST by jetson (Can I catch you a delicious bass...)
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To: PROCON

Multi millionaire osama bin laden who never earned a dime himself but was given the money from the family business set in motion a plan kill thousands of Americans.

My take from that is kill all the rich idle people like kerry...


40 posted on 02/20/2015 1:09:01 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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