Flashback: Right After 9-11, Obama Empathized With The Terrorists

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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Flashback: Right After 9-11, Obama Empathized With The Terrorists

 

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.

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9/11/12 THEY ARE AT WAR, Are We?

 

By: jamesmpratt (Diary) | September 11th, 2012 at 01:12 PM |

How has a “War on Terror” morphed into a “Contingency Operation,” as declared by the Obama Administration in 2009? Contingency of what? Contingency for what? Contingency to maybe fight back?

In 2012 an administration official declared defined ”the war on terror is over.” Did some leader from the axis of terror surrender?

If so, when?

Where did it take place?

Did we get a signature?

Did we collect their arms? Have we cut off their ability to resume war?

Eleven years ago an attack by radical Islamic terrorists precipitated offensive American actions in Afghanistan in the following month, October 2001. With less than 100 Special Forces the United States expelled the oppressive ruling Taliban from Afghanistan (Oct 7 – Dec 7, 2001) — the country which had sponsored Osama Bin Ladin’s terror training and planning of the 9/11 attacks killing more than 3,000 innocent Americans, injuring many more, while directly assaulting the command and control center for all American military muscle world-wide, the Pentagon.

Civilians and military personnel alike were the targets of the vicious unprovoked attack.

The enemy offered their clear objective and placed no timetable on read more http://www.redstate.com/jamesmpratt/2012/09/11/91112-they-are-at-war-are-we/