Kerry: Before 9/11 Terror was a 'Nuisance'
In an unbelievable statement to The New York Times Magazine Kerry said, "We have to get back to the place where we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance."
Is an intifada against Israel a nuisance? It must have been a nuisance for American Leon Klinghoffer to have to be shot in his wheelchair, then pushed over the side of the Achille Lauro. Perhaps it was also a nuisance for the Israeli Olympic Team to have the terrorist group Black September kill eleven team members. I suppose the German policeman experienced the nuisance as well.
Was it a nuisance to have an attempt to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993? I don't recall people using that word then, but I haven't checked all the news reports. IT was probably a nuisance for Pan am Flight 103 to blow up over Lockerbie - at least for the Scots who had to clean up the 'litter' left by the plane.
The list is long, though nuisance is not the word used to describe it -- until now.
How much more evidence is needed for the American public to realize that Kerry does not understand what the stakes are in this war on terror. A nuisance is France's political sandbagging on so many issues, Islamic Terror is NOT, nor has it ever been a nuisance.
Maybe this story is fictional, like the CBS documents, and Kerry did not say this at all. We can hope for the sake of the nation and the world, because this is an amazing example of pure idiocy if it is true. We have no reason to doubt the authenticity of the quote since NY Times wouldn't misquote Kerry in a negative way, so I'd say that upon further review the quote stands.
Having to jump through all the hoops at an airport just to catch a flight is a nuisance. Having that flight blow up while you are on it because of a shoe bomb is, at least to me, slightly more than a nuisance - whether before or after 9/11.
We were all caught off guard on 9/11, but the world will never be the same because we (should) understand that there will always be people who despise us for any number of reasons and among those people will be the type who are willing to destroy our buildings, kill our people, strike fear in our hearts, and otherwise disrupt our lives. It is true that, because of these facts, there will be no unconditional surrender in the War on Terror, but when terrorists kill and maim and destroy calling it a nuisance is irresponsible in a way that is unpresidential.
Is an intifada against Israel a nuisance? It must have been a nuisance for American Leon Klinghoffer to have to be shot in his wheelchair, then pushed over the side of the Achille Lauro. Perhaps it was also a nuisance for the Israeli Olympic Team to have the terrorist group Black September kill eleven team members. I suppose the German policeman experienced the nuisance as well.
Was it a nuisance to have an attempt to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993? I don't recall people using that word then, but I haven't checked all the news reports. IT was probably a nuisance for Pan am Flight 103 to blow up over Lockerbie - at least for the Scots who had to clean up the 'litter' left by the plane.
The list is long, though nuisance is not the word used to describe it -- until now.
How much more evidence is needed for the American public to realize that Kerry does not understand what the stakes are in this war on terror. A nuisance is France's political sandbagging on so many issues, Islamic Terror is NOT, nor has it ever been a nuisance.
Maybe this story is fictional, like the CBS documents, and Kerry did not say this at all. We can hope for the sake of the nation and the world, because this is an amazing example of pure idiocy if it is true. We have no reason to doubt the authenticity of the quote since NY Times wouldn't misquote Kerry in a negative way, so I'd say that upon further review the quote stands.
Having to jump through all the hoops at an airport just to catch a flight is a nuisance. Having that flight blow up while you are on it because of a shoe bomb is, at least to me, slightly more than a nuisance - whether before or after 9/11.
We were all caught off guard on 9/11, but the world will never be the same because we (should) understand that there will always be people who despise us for any number of reasons and among those people will be the type who are willing to destroy our buildings, kill our people, strike fear in our hearts, and otherwise disrupt our lives. It is true that, because of these facts, there will be no unconditional surrender in the War on Terror, but when terrorists kill and maim and destroy calling it a nuisance is irresponsible in a way that is unpresidential.
posted by Edward W. Prather at 16:25
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