Posted on 09/10/2002 12:21:51 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
Blame America First. The 9-11 attacks were our own fault, former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite contended on Monday's Larry King Live on CNN, because we hog so much of the world's wealth while many are destitute.
Cronkite said he believes "very definitely that foreign policy could have caused what has happened," before he asserted that anti-U.S. terrorism is caused by "this great division between the rich and the poor in the world." The people of the world "who don't have adequate housing, don't have adequate hospitalization, don't have adequate medical care, don't have adequate education," Cronkite warned, "are not going to live forever in the shadow of the riches that we display constantly." Walter Cronkite attributed terrorism to U.S. policy and world poverty: "We are suffering from a revolution of the...have-nots against the...haves and that's us."
Applying liberal logic which seeks to blame the U.S. for all the world's ills, Cronkite declared: "We are suffering from a revolution of the poor and have-nots against the rich and haves and that's us."
In fact, the al Qaeda terrorists were hardly poor and the vast majority of the world's poor do not support terrorism. The common elements amongst those targeting the U.S. is Islamic extremism and nation's without respect for individual liberty.
Cronkite's liberal ranting came about 45 minutes into the live September 9 interview tied to the 9-11 anniversary.
King prompted Cronkite by wondering about "foreign policy's affect on what might have caused 9-11?"
That set off Cronkite: "Yes, I think very definitely that foreign policy could have caused what has happened." King interjected: "Doesn't excuse it." But Cronkite plowed forward without acknowledging King's caveat, so he presumably did not agree with it: "We have been warned by other terrorist attacks elsewhere of the dislike for us and the intensity of organization to express that dislike in various terrorist acts around the country -- the two embassies that were blown up in Africa, the Destroyer Cole, for instance, episode, and that sort of thing. "It should be apparent to us, it should have been apparent to us a long time ago and it certainly should be apparent now -- it should be, for goodness sakes understood now, but it is not, that the problem is this great division between the rich and the poor in the world. We represent the rich. Each of our citizens is not rich, of course, but as a country we are exceedingly rich. As a country, all of these, most of these other nations of Africa, Asia and South America and Central America are very, very poor. The people in those countries who don't have adequate housing, don't have adequate hospitalization, don't have adequate medical care, don't have adequate education, they are not going to live forever in the shadow of the riches that we display constantly in our movies, in our travels around the world, in our airlines, in our shipping. "They're not going to put up with that forever. This is a revolution in effect around the world. A revolution is in place today. We are suffering from a revolution of the poor and have-nots against the rich and haves and that's us."
Yes, it's all our fault and Osama bin Laden is just trying to help the world's downtrodden improve themselves.
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! ROFLMAO!!! This is the best comment on the thread.
I'm sure Walter absolutely believes that he EARNED that yacht, but everyone else stole it by stealing stuff from poor, destitute Third-Worlders.
Please tell me what POS stands for everyone keeps using that and it is driving me mad.
money or lack of it is not the reason New York was hit by terrorism...
Thank you.
Uncle Walter busy making sure the clinton administration was kept under media scrutiny.
BUMP BUMP BUMP and a BIGGER BUMP!
What a pile of horse do-do.
Anudder pair of udders along for the ride.
Nuff said.
So, Uncle Walter, I'll speak really slow so you can understand me.
Terrorists believe that Islam has been humiliated by a culture and religion inferior to Islam. It is their duty to wage jihad -- a holy war to throw off that culture and restore Islam to the glory and honor that it should have. It is their duty to convert the world by the sword to Islam. If, and this is a big if, they decide to be merciful to the conquered, then we may be allowed to keep our religion, but we will be regulated to dhimmi status. Our lands taken, our property taken, our children taken to be raised as good Muslim.
Walter, this is their history. From the defeat of Islam in Europe and especially the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the end of WWI, they have not had the means by which to fight. Oil wealth, modern communications, and the fall of the Soviet Union have given them the means.
In the face of terror, the West has retreated and surrendered. That surrender has only produced more terror.
One culture bent on domination... the other one not really sure (by the sound of editorials, democratic and RINO complaining) they want to fight.
Tune in tomorrow to see the how this clash of civilizations turns out!
Newsflash, Mr. Cronkite: there has always been a great division between the rich and the poor in the world. Many have long had inadequate housing, medical care, and education, etc.
What has changed, however, is that people in those poorer nations are now able to see that division, thanks to the television and the internet. Unable or unwilling to toss out the tyrants, their frustration is easily manipulated by ideologues and terrorists who care not one whit whether they live or die.
perhaps the bin laden family should bomb the sh*t out of "wally the have not" because under wally's own terms he is a have not...
Translation,t they're jealous of what we have, but too lazy to work for it.
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