Kerry: Terrorists Just Nuisance

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Kerry: Terrorists Just Nuisance
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Sun, 10-10-2004 - 5:46pm
We now know why Kerry has such a difficult time formulating a policy regarding terrorism. For him. . .what's the big deal?. . .they're just a nuisance! In a New York Times interview published today, Kerry said: ''We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance.'' I'd like to see him explain to 3,000 9/11 families that terrorists are "just a nuisance". . .I'd like to see him explain to 350 Beslan Russian families that terrorists are "just a nuisance". . .I'd like to see him explain to the Israeli families attacked by suicide bombers that terrorists are "just a nuisance". Kerry is living in LaLa land: a universe where the French and Russians didn't really sell arms to Saddam, where UN officials didn't corrupt the food for oil program, where by sheer personal "charm" he is going to convince our allies to join him in "the wrong war, at the wrong place, in the wrong time". Right!

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Registered: 08-31-2003
Sun, 10-10-2004 - 6:10pm
"We now know why Kerry has such a difficult time formulating a policy regarding terrorism. For him. . .what's the big deal?. . .they're just a nuisance! In a New York Times interview published today, Kerry said: ''We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance.'' I'd like to see him explain to 3,000 9/11 families that terrorists are "just a nuisance". "

I'd love to see this in context of everything he said. I really hope he isn't suggesting that the terrorists were ever only a nuisance. Whether we are actively fighting them, or merely keeping tabs on them and protecting our citizens as best as possible from them, their threat is and will always be more than just a nuisance.

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Registered: 08-05-2004
Sun, 10-10-2004 - 7:11pm
Yes. Is there a link to the whole story?
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Registered: 04-03-2003
Sun, 10-10-2004 - 7:40pm
Here's a link to CNN about the story in the NYT Magazine...

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/10/bush.kerry.terror/index.html

And this may or may not be a link to the original article... can't say for certain since I'm not registered and don't want to.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/magazine/10KERRY.html

~mark~

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Sun, 10-10-2004 - 8:05pm
Thanks for the link. Here is the full quote from the NY Times link:

When I asked Kerry what it would take for Americans to feel safe again, he displayed a much less apocalyptic worldview. ''We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance,'' Kerry said. ''As a former law-enforcement person, I know we're never going to end prostitution. We're never going to end illegal gambling. But we're going to reduce it, organized crime, to a level where it isn't on the rise. It isn't threatening people's lives every day, and fundamentally, it's something that you continue to fight, but it's not threatening the fabric of your life.''

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/magazine/10KERRY.html?pagewanted=6&adxnnl=1&oref=login&adxnnlx=1097452955-Lhlr1LC3hvgJnYGpei6Qlw

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Sun, 10-10-2004 - 8:17pm
Once again, context forgotten (and found!)
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Sun, 10-10-2004 - 9:24pm
The context is that John Kerry does not have a realistic view of the world. People who blow up school children, who behead civilians (or anyone else for that matter) and post films of the beheading on the internet, who encourage children to be suicide bombers, etc. etc. etc. are not and never will be just a "nuisance". Kerry would be just about as effective in dealing with the terrorists as Neville Chamberlain was in dealing with Hitler - for all our sakes I hope he never gets the chance!
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Sun, 10-10-2004 - 10:17pm
I understood what he means, and it does reflect a realistic view. Thinking you can eliminate all of it is unrealistic.

Once again, we are all here because one president in my lifetime had the courage to say we will *not* attack, when everyone else said to attack. It's not always the right thing to do. Knowing when and when not to is such a vital thing, and this president, mr chicken, has no clue.

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Registered: 08-31-2003
Sun, 10-10-2004 - 11:12pm
Nuisance may have been a poor choice of a word. But I do understand what he is saying about returning the world to a place where terrorism is in check. I don't know if that's a realsitic goal right now, and I'm sure that there are those in the middle east that would love to know a time when terrorism was in check. My interpretation of all that Bush has said is pretty much the same, winning the war on terrorism, in my view, will not mean that terrorism no longer exists. The problem is, it's an effective tool to keep people in fear, which hinders them and puts the terrorists in control. And it's very hard to fight.
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Mon, 10-11-2004 - 4:30am
In war you fight on the offense not the defense. Kerry wants just the opposite. He wants us to wait until we are attacked the nwe go to the UN who have taken bribes and given money to Saddam to rebuild his weapons program after sanctions are lifted from bribes to UN. Got it! The UN is our enemy. They have supported terrorists with kick-backs.

By the way did you know they found discs in Iraq on specific schools in America and their security codes? Sounds like a threat to me.
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Mon, 10-11-2004 - 7:02am
The UN is not our enemy. The John Birch Society was always advocating us leaving the UN, and their reputation is???

It's extremist and folly. It is not us against the world. We are part of the world, not it's rulers.

As for the discs... those were not threats from Saddam Hussein, they were of terrorists who have since entered the country. There is no connection to Hussein... none.




Edited 10/11/2004 7:59 am ET ET by rayeellen

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