In November 2015, right after terrorists attacked Paris, France again, US Secretary of State John Kerry spoke of the logic of Islamic terrorists killing the people at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in January:
“There’s something different about what happened from Charlie Hebdo, and I think everybody would feel that. There was a sort of particularized focus and perhaps even a legitimacy in terms of – not a legitimacy, but a rationale that you could attach yourself to somehow and say, okay, they’re really angry because of this and that.”
The statement highlighted many flaws in Kerry’s worldview:
- A desire to find a logic in the minds of the terrorists, with a very narrow focus (as Obama would say “legitimate grievances”)
- An implication that the victims were to blame for causing such “legitimate grievances”
- A desire to assume the entire world shared this flawed worldview.
Part of the Eiffel Tower
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As detailed in “I’m Offended, You’re Dead,” a narrow focus on blasphemy misses the bigger agenda of radical Islam. Refusing to listen to terrorist groups’ own words and charters in which they call for the killing of infidels and destruction of countries is a blindness that simply is unacceptable in the Secretary of State of the most powerful country on earth.
Kerry and the Obama administration’s hyper-narrow focus on these so-called “legitimate grievances” led them to explore ways of trying to placate terrorists:
- Advancing blasphemy laws in the United Nations
- Preventing Jews from living in “Arab Lands”
- Ignoring gross human-rights abuses from Muslim nation allies
Is the failure of the US administration’s foreign policies due to blindness from narrow-focus, open-mindedness that the jihadists have “legitimate grievances,” or just bad policies and/or implementation of those strategies?
What do you think?
Related First.One.Through articles:
Failures of the Obama Doctrine and the Obama Rationale
Obama supports Anti-Semitic Palestinian Agenda of Jew-Free State
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