Aaron Klein
JERUSALEM — Terrorism is not a belief but instead is a response
to despair and a lack of hope, argued Chuck Hagel in unreported
remarks during a 2007 senate hearing.
“But when people have no hope, when there’s despair, little else
matters,” said Hagel.
He continued: “And this is not about terrorists don’t like
freedom. Tell that to the Palestinian people who have been chained
down for many, many years. Terrorism is not a strategy, it’s a
tactic. Terrorism is not a plan. It’s not a belief like democracy
or monarchy. It’s a tactic.”
Hagel was speaking during a January 24, 2007 Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations hearing on Iraq.
His comments
were captured in this CSPAN video.
Hagel’s views on terrorism are not abnormal for the Obama
administration.
John Brennan, President Obama’s counterterror adviser, once
defined them term jihad as to “purify oneself or to wage a holy
struggle for a moral goal.”
Brennan is now Obama’s pick to head the CIA.
Also
in largely unreported remarks, Obama himself claimed the
9-11 attacks were carried out because of a lack of “empathy” for
others’ suffering on the part of al-Qaida, whose terrorist
ideology “grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance,
helplessness and despair.”
Obama went on to imply the September 11th attacks were in part a
result of U.S. policy, lecturing the American military to minimize
civilian casualties in the Middle East and urging action opposing
“bigotry or discrimination directed against neighbors and friends
of Middle-Eastern descent.”
“Even as I hope for some measure of peace and comfort to the
bereaved families, I must also hope that we, as a nation, draw
some measure of wisdom from this tragedy,” Obama wrote in a piece
about 9-11 published on Sept. 19, 2001, in Chicago’s Hyde Park
Herald.
The future president continued: “Certain immediate lessons are
clear, and we must act upon those lessons decisively. We need to
step up security at our airports. We must re-examine the
effectiveness of our intelligence networks and we must be resolute
in identifying the perpetrators of these heinous acts and
dismantling their organizations of destruction,” wrote Obama.
“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 or 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, it may be
channeled by particular demagogues or fanatics.
“Most often, though, it grows out a climate of poverty and
ignorance, helplessness and despair.
“We will have to make sure, despite our rage, that any U.S.
military action takes into account the lives of innocent civilians
abroad. We will have to be unwavering in opposing bigotry or
discrimination directed against neighbors and friends of
Middle-Eastern descent. Finally, we will have to devote far more
attention to the monumental task of raising the hopes and
prospects of embittered children across the globe – children not
just in the Middle East, but also in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe
and within our own shores.”
Obama’s piece gained little notice outside the Hyde Park Herald,
which covered Obama’s district as a Chicago state senator. The
Hyde Park area is heavily influenced by the Nation of Islam.
With additional research by Joshua Klein
Guest Comment: You may think that Chuck
Hagel is unfit to make US Policy but for Obama - a man unfit to be the president of the USA - he is the perfect man to
represent his ideas of US policy. But the truth is that Hagel is misguided about
the nature of terrorists, which flies in the face of the facts. The people who
attacked the US on 9/11, were almost ALL members of the upper middle class and
were collage educated in the best European and American universities. Painting
them as victims of oppression masks the true nature of Islam terror.
Islam is at a constant war with the West and has been at that war for centuries
with all those who are not under Islamic rule or are not Moslems. War is a
religious imperative Moslems carry out, not a demand for freedom from
oppression. Where they rule, they ARE the oppressors! Their goal is to spread
Islam throughout the world and rule the world under Islamic Sharia Law. The
failure to recognize this either stems from ignorance, deliberate blindness and
up to aggression. Islam is an evident threat to ALL non-Moslems but there are
those who ignore the unfolding based in a neurotic self-hate, or twisted [Left]
ideology that would like to see the enemy of civilization [Islam] win the war
they are waging against us. Such self destructive thinking and behavior however
is not unique to Chuck Hagel. It is far more wide spread than one might imagine
and it corrupts our policies and our ability to survive. It is what has been
called, Political Correctness = LIES, a serious mental disorder that undermines
our will to see the truth, yell the truth in order to survive.
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