A reminder of Obama’s compassion…for jihadists
Thank you to Sweetness & Light for the devastating and damning reminder of where Barack Obama’s heart lies on this seventh anniversary of the 9/11 jihadi attacks:
In one of the “very serious” articles about Mr. Obama, called “Making It,” in the current issue of The New Yorker we are treated to his response to 9/11 as published in the September 19th 2001 edition of the Hyde Park Herald:
Even as I hope for some measure of peace and comfort to the bereaved families, I must also hope that we as a nation draw some measure of wisdom from this tragedy. Certain immediate lessons are clear, and we must act upon those lessons decisively. We need to step up security at our airports. We must reexamine the effectiveness of our intelligence networks. And we must be resolute in identifying the perpetrators of these heinous acts and dismantling their organizations of destruction.
We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of understanding the sources of such madness. The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity and suffering of others. Such a failure of empathy, such numbness to the pain of a child or the desperation of a parent, is not innate; nor, history tells us, is it unique to a particular culture, religion, or ethnicity. It may find expression in a particular brand of violence, and may be channeled by particular demagogues or fanatics. Most often, though, it grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair.
We will have to make sure, despite our rage, that any U.S. military action takes into account the lives of innocent civilians abroad. We will have to be unwavering in opposing bigotry or discrimination directed against neighbors and friends of Middle Eastern descent. Finally, we will have to devote far more attention to the monumental task of raising the hopes and prospects of embittered children across the globe—children not just in the Middle East, but also in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and within our own shores.
“Empathy” would appear to be Mr. Obama’s watchword when it comes to talking about 9/11.
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Although I’d say that our military leadership is in good hands. Our political leadership could certainly use some spinal reinforcement, though.
I believe another poster mentioned it a few months ago – watch out for those Amish…
I wonder if that idiot will be enjoying the sound of the call to prayer in Arabic on this day…
Thanks speaking about that. I don’t see that happen very often on this site.
This makes me sick. But Obama is right when he talks about the failure to connect with people- he fails to connect with middle class America. But to think that this is the mindset that will control his reaction as Commander in Chief. On the heels of an attack, thre is no time to have long range philosophical discussions- there is only time to hit back harder.
(Hat tip to John Ansell for the interview link.)
This is most assuredly a spiritual war. The jihadists are in an unHoly war against Jews and Christians.
I am a born-again, Spirit-filled follower of Jesus Christ. Jesus is Lord! I, like Osama Bin Laden, believe that God has created us for the purpose of worshipping him. But Bin Laden’s god, Allah, leads him to murder people. My God, Jesus Christ, leads me to love people.
So, if Allah teaches his followers to kill, and Jesus teaches his followers to love, what does that say about Allah vs. Jesus?
I believe Allah is “the thief”:
Thanks for speaking…
It is also indisputable that the majority are also male and have dark hair. A majority of them have also never attended a Star Trek convention. Are Y chromosomes, dark hair and a lack of appreciation for sci-fi also contributing factors?
Of course not. A basic tenet of logic is that correlation is not causation.
As I pointed out in an earlier post, there are a lot of countries that are much poorer and more desperate than any in the Middle East who somehow do not give birth to terrorist movements. Why not? If poverty and unemployment are contributing factors why aren’t they recruiting Americans who find themselves down and out? Surely AQ would dearly love to have some average-looking American citizens doing their work here within our borders. So where are the legions of Appalachian AQ operatives?
Unemployment and poverty aren’t the problems. The problem is that you have a demented society that teaches it’s children practically from birth that the road to paradise is paved with dead infidels. You have two generations now that have been trained to be receptive to the message that Bin Laden and his twisted ilk put out.
You can repeat the idea of a poverty/terror link till you’re blue in the face, it won’t make it true.
Kapo lgm is the kind of kid who held the bully’s books for him while the bully was stealing other kids’ milk money.
Send Me – After years of internet reading, I have great mistyping interpretation skills… lol
A reminder of Obama’s compassion…for jihadists
vickisoup, there’s a real possibility that Obama may have been one of those children, when he was in Indonesia.
The hyperbole is rather unnecessary. It was a mistake on my part.
Besides, the context remains the same.
Oops, meant to say fixed it…
Fixed that one too. Yeah, pretty harsh on 9/11, but apologizing for one terrorist is to apologize for all.
As many of you know, I don’t consider Islam a religion. When the Quran was composed, it’s purpose was not to give the people of the desert hope, but rather to keep them under control. It was presented to the ignorant masses as an instrument by which the “chosen one” communicated God’s message.
The superstitious bedouins believed in magic and the supernatural, and it was this ignorance that Mohammed counted on to make his scheme work. Not only were people leery of going against what was presented as “religious teachings”, the Quran was written in a way that would make anyone who questioned it, an apostate (disloyal), vilified, and worthy of killing – by Quranic law.
Throughout history, so called “Islamic scholars” have put their own spin on the meanings of many of the Quranic passages to suit their individual political ideologies. These “sages” have used, and continue use this work of fiction to maintain control over the masses, and to have them do their bidding, under the guise of “Allah’s Will.”
Nothing outside of Islam has prevented those who believe in the teachings of Mohammed from growing economically, nor educationally. The Quranic scripture, the Islamic leadership, and it’s zealots are responsible for the plight and retardation of their followers, not the concepts of freedom practiced and promoted by the United States of America.
The terrorists that continued their fanatical jihad on America on 9/11 were Muslims of Middle Eastern descent, between the ages of 18 and 40 years old who chose to follow the path to paradise, promised the Quran.
To my knowledge, there is no religion on Earth that preaches hate, and murder as the keys to heaven. Islam is a murderous thug culture, run by meglomanically deviant criminals, whose sole purpose in life is bring death and destruction…they do not offer life everlasting!
>>>“Empathy” would appear to be Mr. Obama’s watchword when it comes to talking about 9/11.<<<
To paraphrase Worf: “Empathize this!
The gutless and opportunists among our elected officials need to be replaced by people who understand that we were attacked on 9/11. We didn’t cause the attacks. We were targeted because we are a free and tolerant people. We were attacked because we don’t go to the other guys’ church.
The world needs to know that if we are attacked, there is no place on earth where we will not go in pursuit of our attackers.
I don’t forget; I don’t forgive. Given the opportunity, I would serve again today, even if I had to bring my own gear, guns, and ammunition.
ECS
CPT, AR
US Army (Ret.)
http://theturkeyfootbrand.blogspot.com/
Insurgencies and counterinsurgencies are fought on human terrain. This mean that the battle is for the fear, trust, and respect of the people in the area of operations. We work to win the fear of our enemies, trust of our allies (and potential allies), and respect of all. Some, but not all, people are motivated by ideology. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (specifically the physiological needs, safety, and love for family/tribe) is the motivator of many, which are the easier and, sometimes, more beneficial to exploit. Poverty is merely a part of the economic situation of the overall human terrain. For example, not all IED emplacers are hard-core ideologues. Some are just folks who don’t have a job, have payments, and want to make an easy $50 by placing a widget next to the road. These are the people we can affect through other means, to our benefit, besides merely “killing them all and letting God sort them out.”
Poverty, lack of education, lack of public works, etc. are not causes in and of themselves, but they are certainly components of the human terrain that can be exploited, either by friendly forces (i.e. earning their trust and respect by helping them) or by the enemy (i.e. controlling resources, hence controlling people).
This war is not simply an ideological war. As I said before in my first post on this thread, in my opinion, neither McCain nor Obama understand this.
PS. lgm, you’re another apologist. Obama wasn’t ready to lead a blind man to the bathroom on 9/11 and still isn’t.
ECS
CPT, AR
US Army (Ret.)
http://theturkeyfootbrand.blogspot.com/
ECS,
I’m glad you’re out there! Thank you for your service to this great country!
Which explains why Obama and other leftists want to keep the masses dependent, and under their control. This is a flaw in the leftist ideology, not a flaw in the impoverished people who are exploited.
Yes, if only we had given Osama a few more billions, a few more wives and children, a little more education and a little hope, he would never have become the angry mass-murderer that he is. Look at the absolute peace and calm we have achieved in Pakistan just by tossing them a few billion every year. And think of the world peace Obama, the citizen of the world, will achieve when he raises our taxes to wage his global war on poverty.
/sarc off
all this reminds me of a saying we Marines have always had….” Only God forgives, we arrange the meeting”… OT I know… but…..
Obama: “We will have to make sure, despite our rage, that any U.S. military action takes into account the lives of innocent civilians abroad.”
What a demonstration that Obama’s instincts are all wrong. America just takes three thousand dead with perhaps follow-on attacks inbound and Obama is worried about innocent civilians in the attacking countries.
Obama: “We will have to be unwavering in opposing bigotry or discrimination directed against neighbors and friends of Middle Eastern descent.”
More wrong instincts. The people from the Middle East are the SOURCE of bigotry and discrimination, not the victims here. Had we been as bigoted and discriminatory as Arab Muslims, American streets would have run red with Muslim blood, like a Danish cartoon riot on steroids. Obama is fingering the wrong people for blame.
Obama: “Finally, we will have to devote far more attention to the monumental task of raising the hopes and prospects of embittered children across the globe—children not just in the Middle East, but also in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and within our own shores.”
Islam is the cause of embittered children and embittered adults in the Middle East. Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia specifically teaches that Muslims should maintain a “wall of resentment” against infidels. The Sep 11 skyjackers were simply carrying out Islamic doctrine in making war against non-Muslims, following the example of Mohammed in killing infidels.
Obama’s words have been floating around via email all day. A wise friend of mine upon reading them replied, “Obama’s thoughts on the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and his need to explain the underlying causes tend to make one wonder whether he feels as if he lost 19 friends on 9/11/2001!”
I do not want this man to be my Commander-In-Chief for one single day, let alone for 4-8 years!
I am glad that lgm comments here. It inspires me. Lgm’s comments are diametrically opposed to most of us here and I am inspired to work harder and support those conservatives that share my views and those that represent me in this Republic. On the anniversary of 9/11 I am reminded that 35% of Democrats still believes that it was an inside job and it was probably our fault. We have a lot of work to do. Again thanks again lgm.
I don’t want to overreach. I don’t want to psychologize. I don’t want to smear. It’s just this — It’s OBAMA who is the embittered child. Look at his childhood. The problem is in him, not outside him where he supposes it is.
QFT (quoted for truth)
HERE is an interesting bit of info about Islamic terrorists.
Paul Cincy
the quote you have attributed to me, I didn’t say. ???????????
mirak: “Rampant unemployment and poverty are not the only cause of Islamic terrorism – Obama doesn’t say they are – but they are a contributing factor. The impossible task of eliminating poverty and unemployment cannot be substituted for military and intelligence deterence – Obama does not suggest that it can – but America needs to make great efforts to bolster its perception abroad even while it wages war against Islamic terrorism. Isn’t that what Obama was trying to say? What’s wrong with that?”
Mirak, most of the Sep 11 skyjackers came from Saudi Arabia, a country which America lifted from nomadic poverty to the lap of luxury. There is no nation in human history which has benefited more from the benevolence of another country as Saudi Arabia has benefited from the USA. We found oil under their feet, developed those oil fields at our own risk, and gave the Saudis the lion’s share of the profits. We made them our business partners rather than take them over. Then, we helped them remake their entire country, building roads and electrical lines and skyscrapers. We gave them ice and air conditioning. We made them obscenely rich.
As a consequence of the Saudis wildly profitable partnership with the USA, every Saudi was guaranteed a job, education, a home or interest-free home loan, a dowry when they got married, etc.
Mirak, you America-hating boob, there were no Saudis who weren’t getting a government paycheck. All of the Saudi skyjackers were middle class. The Sep 11 attack was led by college-educated Muslims, planned by a Muslim educated in the US, and financed by a Saudi multimillionaire.
The skyjackers were not poor, unemployed wretches. They were ardent Muslims who carried out the doctrine of jihad preached by Islam. The first couple skyjackers paid their own way to America, eager to kill Americans. Many of the other skyjackers paid many of their own expenses.
Making Saudis rich did not make them like us but simply empowered their murderous Wahhabi bigotry. It’s like pouring sugar on a fire ant nest. You don’t get nicer fire ants loving your sugar, you get more fire ants wanting to bite the hell out of you you.
The reason for the Sep 11 attacks is not poverty in the Middle East but wealth, the kind of wealth where rich Saudi princes have an extra half million bucks to donate to killing Americans. It’s the kind of wealth where Saudi Arabia can blow $80+ billion on spreading their despicable Islam around the globe, incidently funding the indoctrination and logistics to carry out terror attacks in London, Spain, Germany, Indian, Bali, etc.
It is hammerheaded stupidity that claims that poverty creates terror. Poor people can’t afford to buy bombs and airline tickets and pocket money to go to other countries to kill people, you boob. That’s for rich terrorists.
What ill repute America may have abroad is due largely to local propaganda where governments blame everything on the US and the gullible, ignorant, and uneducated people believe it. Dumb as dirt Turks believe it when they hear America is harvesting organs from Iraqis. Stupid Muslims from the Pakistani madrassas believe America is making dinosaurs to eat Muslims. Stupid India farmers believed Indira Ghandi when she told them America had stopped the monsoon rains from watering their fields. And people like you believe America has a bad name through its own fault, you blithering idiot.
That, in a nutshell, is what is wrong with what Obama says and you believe. Both of you couldn’t be more wrong.
Obama doesn’t understand the first thing about the causes of terrorism. Should we then put him at the controls of the levers of power? We might as well put someone in a car who thinks the brake means go and the accelerator means stop. Mayhem will ensue.
Paul-Cincy #122, thanks. What’s so appalling to me is that there are so many people who are willfully blind to this truth, and who, like sheep, will follow their leaders right over a cliff. I don’t want them to take America, the land that I love, and the freedom that I enjoy, with them.
When Obama was pressed by Bill O to admit the success of the surge, his response was “I, like many others, couldn’t have imagined how successful it would be…” Couldn’t just admit that HE was wrong, had to be sure to blame OTHERS for his own poor judgment. Sounds like LOTS of projection here, just like in your example.
Narcissists can’t ever admit they’re wrong.
It’s pretty enlightening when one looks at politics with the tenets for successful insurgency/counterinsurgency campaigns. One side tries to reach a demographic in ways the other hasn’t considered, which results in information operations to discredit such and such promises while propping up their own. Both sides will use appeals to emotions, tapping into long-held sentiments about religion or gender roles or race or “change” or… Neither side will be specific, which allows for more room when questioned on them, hence always appearing right on the issues, regardless of who is looking at them (unless of course there are overwhelming polls showing the public sentiments in one direction, they’ll be as specific as possible.)
I’m rather amazed, really, that politicians can be so good at working over the voters of this country, yet don’t understand this type of warfare.
Does anyone expect anything different to come from someone whose family is Islamic? His father, grandfather, sisters, brothers etc.? Would you expect anything different to come from someone who spent a few years studying in a Madras? Of someone who went to pray in mosques as a young man? Who was identified on paperwork at two different schools as being Muslim? Would you expect anything less from a man who wishes to eliminate research and development in the U.S. military? Who wants to surrender to Islam and the thugs sworn to destroy this country? Who wishes to meet with the very Islamists and their leaders without precondition over a nice cup of tes? Someone who is best friends with a number of Truthers?
Maybe others might…but certainly not me. In fact, I expect nothing from that…person running for President from the Democrats.
Target! Re-engage!
“Shoot until it blows up.” – SFC Robert Strand, Drill Sergeant, Company B, 2nd Battalion, 1st AIT/OSUT Brigade, Fort Knox, KY, circa 1976.
ECS
CPT, AR
US Army (Ret.)
http://theturkeyfootbrand.blogspot.com/
On September 11th, 2008 at 2:07 pm,
Thank you, ma’am. Thank your husband for his service, and don’t forget MNUSMCDavid.
David-
I’m not a Marine, but “Semper Fi!”
ECS
CPT, AR
US Army (Ret.)
ECS
Semper Fi backatcha… and no problem… God’s blessing on your service, if I may say so.
Obummer is such a damned fraud. Reading this statement of his just reminds me that a lot of what he says, including the DNC speech, is a bunch of empty rhetoric. There is no real feeling behind these words. If anything, it’s a passive attempt at reasoning out the senseless actions of terrorists.
Terror warrior, my *ss.
I don’t believe the “reasoning” put forth by the Enlightened One…UFB!
As for lgm…buddy these Islamic terrorists would love to either have us groveling for them or to put our heads on the chopping block, just because we are different…and those in the Islamic world who have the money to recruit and train terrorists are bastardizing the Koran for their own goals…this county has had to fight Islam in the past (in the early 1800’s – pick up a book dealing this his period in American history), and they only way they back off is having the military defeat them…AGAIN!
fmfnavydoc
HMCS(FMF)
USN RET
fmfnavydoc
one of you patched me up 38 years ago…. a hearty semper Fi to you!
Printed in the New York Times on September 11, 2001
I think they do understand this type of psychological warfare. They may not always understand it when it really counts, such as when it is used against the sovereignty and best interests of this country, but there are some who definitely understand how to bend their rhetoric to what they think others will respond to…and they can do that in their sleep with one hand tied behind their back.
This is why we must be vigilant to make decisions about our nation’s future based on FACTS, not emotions, a primary distinction between conservatives and liberals (socialists/communists/marxists).
Due to Mr. Obama’s beliefs regarding gay marriage and abortion, he would be one of the first to be get the “axe”, so to speak, were he to come face to face with these same Islamic extremists he has so much empathy for.
Fellow readers,
I would like to take this time to also remind you that not only Obama has compassion for terrorists (Ayers) but LGM also has sympathy for the terrorists in Iraq who fight our soldiers. The far left in this country wants to destroy our prosperity because they think they are missionaries of equality.
Actually, Bush gave the Taliban a second chance to repent before sending in ground units.
Really? So then why didn’t the democrats match him up against Bush in 2000 or 2004?
Obama’s not even ready to lead today! He won’t even confront Sean Hannity!!
Well, the American people thought otherwise given his approval rating at the time. BTW, how’s the Democrat-led Congress doing these days?
It’s not about revenge, it’s about self-defense in Afghanistan and intel failure about Iraq.
Name me one elected person who has done this and give me the exact quote, LGM. My guess is that you are lying pure, plain and simple.
Should the Islamists accomplish what they wish, they will NOT extend the same courtesy to you.
Consider that, LGM.
I’m gonna say it, I can’t help it. Anyone read the Left Behind series? Cause me thinks Obamesiah has. He is going for the part of Nicoli (The Anti-Christ). If you haven’t read the series I suggest you do, it’s a good read.
I have read them all. Sadly, though they were not as enjoyable as they could have been… I already knew the final outcome and Who would ‘Reign Supreme’ in the end!
dissfunktional Says:
Lgm’s, Obummer’s, and all the other liberals’ ilk (did I spell that right mj?) new slogan for dealing with terrorists should be the following:
BEND OVER AND TAKE SOME PUNISHMENT
Straight_Talk_Luigi said (#141):
Here and here and here and here and …
STL: Note those “sources” someone referred you to are all liberal by definition; they’re hardly reputable, or valid.
What Bill Ayers posted on his blog on September 10, 2008.
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