John Kerry Declares "Rationale" For Charlie Hebdo Slaughter

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This was a really poor choice of words.
Maybe "predictability" was what he was looking for Charlie Hebdo was more predictable (not legitimate) than bombings and random restaurant shootings.
I think you have it. Horrendous and , to the western mind, irrational, it was much more to be expected than these last attacks. Now that we understand Daesh better, not so unexpected in the future.
 

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Bull. Those killed Friday killed no Muslims.
Bull. They willingly paid the taxes and elected the leaders that paid for and decided to kill Muslims in their name so it makes at least as much sense. Face it, Kerry made a stupid statement - intended or not. It was a complete blunder of a statement. I would not believe it was his intent to say those words with that meaning if not for the complete idiots who felt like Hebdo brought the whole thing on themselves by daring to exercise their free speech. I mean, how dare they offend someone and not cower in fear. If you need proof of people who feel this way then it's easy to find. Do your own research. My personal feeling is that Kerry actually feels that way and it slipped out before he realized it.
 

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He was correct. They had a less screwed up reason for Hebdo than for last Friday. Hebdo was a direct revenge action. Friday was pure terrorism without any specific reason.
Well some have said Fridays attacks were a "direct revenge action" for jihadhi john getting zapped from the skies.
 

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And how can anyone take John Kerry seriously? He looks like Rocky Dennis with that facelift gone awry. Not to mention the 2 or 3 thoughts bouncing around that thick skull of his are constant party lines. A buffoon of the highest order.
 

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With his latest statement he's walked it back entirely. It does make one wonder what's really going on beneath that Beatles hairdo. Remember, this is the guy who spent months with the Iranians giving them everything President Jarrett wanted.

He's as inept as his boss but "rational" people have long known that.
 
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The timing may have been although it would have eventually taken place anyway.
The Jihadi John evaporation took place the day before if I remember correctly. It would be impressive for them tp have coordinated that whole thing that quickly as a response. I would think that's coincidence. Also, Jihadi John was reportedly a low level scumbag in the ISIS pecking order. His notoriety was the accent.
 

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Yeah, but he did say "legitimacy," before correcting himself.
In its totality, what I got from his comments, what I believe he was trying to say, was that the Charlie Hebdo attacks could sort have been foreseen, but Friday's attacks were more randomized, and thus, in a way, more terrifying. That is trying to put the best face on Kerry's words.
This is how I took it also. He just stumbled over his wording initially. Charlie Hebdo could be foreseen. We all know how they feel about their prophet.
 

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No he is wrong no matter how one looks at it. Both attacks were predictable. They abhor the western way of life and that is why they do what they do.

I'm just a 32 year old American, with no travel outside of about 5 southern states yet the attacks on Paris last week did not surprise me at all.
 

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No he is wrong no matter how one looks at it. Both attacks were predictable. They abhor the western way of life and that is why they do what they do.

I'm just a 32 year old American, with no travel outside of about 5 southern states yet the attacks on Paris last week did not surprise me at all.
...and those to follow there and here will not surprise me at all either. Import the problem and you can expect more of the same.
Frances is at war," says Hollande one day and the next he lauds the fact France will accept 30,00 more refugees. Suicide is in vogue with socialists.
 

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With his latest statement he's walked it back entirely. It does make one wonder what's really going on beneath that Beatles hairdo. Remember, this is the guy who spent months with the Iranians giving them everything President Jarrett wanted.

He's as inept as his boss but "rational" people have long known that.
Not just Jarrett, his son-in-law is Iranian.
 

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Not just Jarrett, his son-in-law is Iranian.
Blue font?

http://www.snopes.com/john-kerry-iranian-son-law/

Brian Nahed is not Iranian: he was not born in Iran, he has never held Iranian citizenship, he has never worked or lived in Iran, and he has never even been to Iran. He's a natural-born U.S. citizen from New York who has lived, attended school, and worked in the United States his whole life. More important, he is not close friends with either Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif or Zarif's son: he doesn't know either of them, and Zarif's son was not the best man at his wedding (nor, as some accounts report, was Zarif's son his college roommate). Vanessa Kerry herself verified to us that Zarif's son was not at her wedding

The small piece of information here that is true is that Brian Nahed's parents were themselves born in Iran. However, they permanently left that country to immigrate to the U.S. forty years ago, well before the Iranian Revolution of 1979, and now live in Los Angeles (where Brian's father also works as aphysician).
 

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Blue font?

http://www.snopes.com/john-kerry-iranian-son-law/

Brian Nahed is not Iranian: he was not born in Iran, he has never held Iranian citizenship, he has never worked or lived in Iran, and he has never even been to Iran. He's a natural-born U.S. citizen from New York who has lived, attended school, and worked in the United States his whole life. More important, he is not close friends with either Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif or Zarif's son: he doesn't know either of them, and Zarif's son was not the best man at his wedding (nor, as some accounts report, was Zarif's son his college roommate). Vanessa Kerry herself verified to us that Zarif's son was not at her wedding

The small piece of information here that is true is that Brian Nahed's parents were themselves born in Iran. However, they permanently left that country to immigrate to the U.S. forty years ago, well before the Iranian Revolution of 1979, and now live in Los Angeles (where Brian's father also works as aphysician).
Would you quibble with calling him an Iranian American?
 

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If it fits a narrative, one's ties will or will not be connected to a particular lineage.

Here we have Kerry's son-in-law having no ties to Iran despite the fact his father is Iranian. A recent attempt to defend the Syrian refugees practically had Steve Jobs as coming in along with a gaggle of widows and orphans, becoming de-radicalized and founding Apple. When in fact Jobs' biological father was Syrian. His mother was American and his parents were never married. Jobs was adopted and never knew or wanted to know his biological father. Yet his example has been used to try to defend the "compassion" of this political disaster. I am surprised Obama himself hasn't floated the Jobs tale.
 

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