Posted on 09/30/2016 7:45:36 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
WASHINGTON – Using the war in Libya and the conflict in Syria as examples, former Secretary of State Colin Powell cautioned against U.S.-backed regime changes.
Touching upon the debate surrounding U.S. immigration from the Middle East, Powell said Muslims should not be “singled out” as threats.
“You better be careful because – and I have considerable experience with this – just taking out the regime doesn’t necessarily fix the problem. ...... (snip) “As I have said to my old bosses, President Bush and others, be careful what you do. Remember if you take out a regime you become the new regime until you can figure out a way to pass it on to the people who live there,” he added.
(snip, couldn't help himself jabbing at Trump)
“We should not isolate and single out just Muslims as being bad. We do have terrorists that come from the Muslim community but we also have some that are homegrown, nutty terrorists that do terrible things. But it would not be our way of doing things if we were to condemn an entire people merely because of their religious belief, and I’ve spoken out on this repeatedly,” Powell said.
“Most recently on the birther issue where some of the people pushing to see the president’s birth certificate also wanted to see if he was a Muslim – does it say so on the birth certificate, and my response has been, so what? You know, we get Muslims born in this country all day long and we want them as long as they are good citizens, and they are good citizens,” he added.
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Don’t recognize Islamic terrorists cause there are
other terrorists who don’t get recognition...?
Honestly, it amazes me that these people held positions
of power.
He did give us. “I would rather not have to vote for her, although she is a friend I respect. A 70-year person with a long track record, unbridled ambition, greedy, not [sic] transformational, with a husband still d**king bimbos at home (according to the NYP).”
This is scary because this is what Europe looked like 20 years ago when the Arabs started their Petrodollar conquest of Europe.
They are finished in Europe and have taken title to the EU and have sent 2 million military age Muslim men to take possession of their property
Now they have been turning their attention to the United States
One enemy target at a time, bowel tube .. one enemy at a time.
Maybe not, but it’s a start.
(PJ Media won’t accept my comment there, so I paste it here instead)
>>>> “You know, we get Muslims born in this country all day long and we want them as long as they are good citizens, and they are good citizens,” he added. <<<<
Problem is these people rather be mooooslem first and foremost, than be a citizen of the United States.
So Colinoscopy, what other religious/political groups should we recognize that are currently committing mass murders in America? We certainly don’t want to leave anyone out.
Yes- in spite of stats or facts we should all have an equal number of bad people.
GFY Powell.
And every society will have a few nuts and just plain evil members who commit terrible crimes, but that provides no rationale for importing large numbers of a group that carries a belief system that has, for centuries, justified violence against non-members of their belief system.
As any nation allows more Muslims to immigrate, or be accepted as refugees, they guarantee there will be more crimes committed against their citizens by some of the new Muslims admitted. That's been proven in nation after nation around the world.
Ok Colon..how bout u publicly single out Black Lies Matter?
LaRaza?
CAIR?
NAACP?
ACLU?
Soros?
The Clintons?
Does he think we are stupid? He does.
Colin! No one gives two craps what you “think”. You’re perfumed prince, got where you got via affirmative action pro
imos. Then you reveal;ed yourself with you inane , petty e-mails
Hey Colon, thanks for shifting the focus from our primary enemy including the muslim maggot in the WH that you voted for twice.
I agree, need to add Hillary to that list also.
Did he bring up The Crusades?
Cant say I care all that much for Visigoths myself.
Ok, so Reagan wasn’t perfect.
Well, the DNC is populated by scum who are so far left wing that the old left is now considered by them to be right of center ... so “communist and socialist are bad” is now out when compiling a bad people list.
And homosexuality and other perversions are being normalized (and the Gaystapo will come after folks who oppose them) so “perverts are bad” is out now too.
Likewise we’ve got BLM standing up for rioters and looters...
Got the legalization crowd portraying pot growers as fun loving small business hippies just wanting to be legitimate, folks who wouldn’t harm a fly...
I could probably keep on going.
So now we are to cease identifying Islam itself as evil, an outpouring of the spirit of antichrist, and to be opposed just as Ba’al worship is to be opposed ... because some cultural Muslims are offended?
We really are approaching a time when the only bad people will be Christiians and those who won’t take the mark of the beast....
“Okay, Muslims and Satanists are bad.”
Communist, international socialist, Central American dictators, the Chinese Politburo, North Koreans
Powell is right there are lots besides Muslims. But Muslims are the main one causing problems right now
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