[ April 19, 2024 ]
How delusional and deceptive can this administration get? If the Islamic State does this when they know they’re losing, what will they do when they know they’re winning? The Obama administration desperately wants to give the impression that they’re defeating the Islamic State, and so they spin even catastrophic jihad attacks as signs of their success. Nothing they say can be trusted.
“John Kerry: Istanbul Attack a Sign Islamic State ‘Know They Are Losing,’” by Frances Martel, Breitbart, June 29, 2016 (thanks to Christian):
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Following an attack on Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport believed to have been orchestrated by the Islamic State, Secretary of State John Kerry asserted that the attack proved the group was “desperate” and “know [they] are losing.”
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Kerry spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival late Tuesday and asserted that the Islamic State did have the capacity to commit bombings, sieges, and other large-scale terrorist attacks, but argued nonetheless that the group is desperate.
“It has been more than one year since Daesh has actually launched a full scale military offensive, and that’s because our coalition is moving relentlessly on every front,” he said; “…if you’re desperate and if you know you are losing, and you know you want to give up your life, then obviously you can do some harm.” He argued that successfully executing a terrorist attack requires terrorists to “get it right for ten minutes or one hour,” a minimal amount of time that does not take preparation into account.
Kerry neither confirmed nor denied reports that Turkish officials believed the Islamic State to have orchestrated the attack. “We are still collecting information and trying to ascertain what happened and who did it and I won’t comment further on it except to say that this is daily fare and that’s why I say the first challenge we need to face is countering non-state violent actors, for a host of reasons,” he said.
Officials have now confirmed that three men stormed the airport late Tuesday, opening fire on the international terminal before blowing themselves up following police response. 41 people died in the attack and over 230 were injured. No terrorist group has taken responsibility for the attack, but Turkish officials have signaled that the Islamic State is responsible. The Islamic State has conducted terrorist attacks in Turkey in the past, though fewer than the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a Marxist terrorist group whose members have gone into Iraq and Syria to fight the Islamic State.
Kerry’s opinion of the Islamic State has fluctuated dramatically over the years. In 2014, Kerry described ISIS as “one of the most dangerous groups that I have seen in my time in public life” and warned that the threat was international. Kerry described government officials as unsurprised following the November 2015 attack on multiple targets in Paris, France.
“They have gained great expertise, over a period of time, and they have some people in ISIS who have been fighting in the terror network for a period of time,” he said. “So, they have access to c-4. They have access to explosives. Everybody knows that. They’re making IEDs every single day.”
“Any individual who wants to strap a suicide vest around them, can walk into any public event, in most places in the world, and blow him or herself up, and destroy people with them,” he added at the time.
Kerry has also declared ISIS to be, “in my judgment,” capable of committing and guilty of genocide.
These statement stand in stark contrast to both Kerry’s remarks Tuesday and the White House’s stance that the Islamic State is a diminished threat. In May, President Obama asserted he did not “think we’re losing” to ISIS. Shortly after the Paris attacks, President Obama asserted of ISIS, “we have contained them.”…
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39 Comments
7 years ago
Who knew! increased violent attacks with more frequency means an enemy is losing. call all the generals!
7 years ago
Reply to
accipehoc2016
So,according to Kerry’s reasoning, we Destroyed The Japanese @ Pearl Harbor
7 years ago
Reply to
accipehoc2016
lol….I guess with that rational, the more the nazis were winning, they would be actually losing, hahah
7 years ago
just like when the vietcong were lobbing mortar rounds into saigon, and we “had them on the run”. have you noticed we lose the wars that kerry is involved with?
7 years ago
Reply to
Eu Wei Choi
And like the NVA/VC the moslem savages will strike at places that you simply can’t guard – shopping malls, parades, subways, churches, office buildings, restaurants, synagogues, bus / train terminals, places where people congregate
And they can strike with IED, with grenades, with car bombs, spraying crowds with machine guns (not the semi-automatic that we are permitted to own), with suicide vests
They have so many options, and we do not know where / when / how they are going to hit
4th of July is around the corner, be extra vigilant!
7 years ago
The buzz bomb attacks on London during WWII, and the Nazi invasion of France were indications that the Germans were losing? The real indications that the Nazis were losing was when allied troops stormed the Normandy beaches, and made beach heads. The indications they were losing was when they were losing. Kerry is delusional, verging on mad as a hatter…certainly incompetent to hold high office, perhaps even low office.
7 years ago
Reply to
Canadian Patriot
Patton he is not. Obama, the less said the better. I read when ISIS started its expansion we had a heavy brigade sitting in Kuwait. I’m sure the Saudi’s would have whined but they could have rolled north west. Oh well.
7 years ago
One can only imagine how DELUDED John Kerry IS
7 years ago
I wonder if john never married into the Heinz family fortune if he would even be on/in the political scene? also- now that his daughter is married to a muzzie does he celebrate Ramadan? does he attend his local mosque-and if he does, his big nose would not allow his fat head to touch the mat.
7 years ago
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7 years ago
The only organization that is “losing” is democrats. They have lost credibility, now they are losing their minds. They are beyond inane propaganda, they are well into delusional.
7 years ago
Arrogant lying doofus !
7 years ago
Reply to
Mic
Typical example of the left I.Q. level a pitiful emetic limp wristed bag of nothing a disgrace !
7 years ago
Baggage handlers wanted…
7 years ago
John Kerry is a globalist tool! The Obama administration is super worried about reputation clearly. Saying the right words not actually DOING anything. How sad is it that I respect Putin more.
7 years ago
Not only does he look stupid He is stupid. And he is part of a stupid government. and they bag Trump?
7 years ago
I guess he thinks we are as stupid as he and his friends are. I’ve heard that line for decades of conflict. “It only means they are getting desperate!” -that kind of thing.
Like John Kerry, its all manure.
Focus up, DC, and MSM, we don’t care what you say anymore, we know you are all liars and a-holes.
7 years ago
John Kerry the dumbest man on the planet! Who would take him seriously? The guy is a joke! An embarrassment to the country!
7 years ago
Reply to
Janet
I know. Yet he has married two uber rich women. I am a woman and I am never going to be that desperate.
7 years ago
Reply to
movingwaters
When he was running for president his wife always looked and acted like she was half in the bag! She probably has to drink to be married to him! She does have a lot of money though! Don’t understand at all what she sees in him! Although she’s no prize either except for her money!
7 years ago
This is the same thing that was said about the 1968 Tet Offensive by the Viet Cong and we saw how that turned out.
7 years ago
The US and the West are losing thanks to people like Kerry.
7 years ago
Kerry must have hit his head when he had that accident on a bicycle a few years ago.
7 years ago
Reply to
RetiredNavyphotog
Agreed. No wonder we got the short end of the stick in the Iranian nuke deal. He is Secretary of State and cannot even negotiate a curb.
7 years ago
I would say that the Istanbul attack is ISIS saying that, despite the fact that Erdogan strongly supports ISIS and helps them make their way, they can turn around and attack even Istanbul’s airport any time they want. That is, unless this was a false flag attack approved by Erdogan. Who knows. The US government has certainly approved false flag attacks on us.
7 years ago
Reply to
movingwaters
Sorry, it doesn’t figure in, ISIS is Sunni and Turkey is 73% Sunni.
7 years ago
Reply to
raycom4rt
Turkey has a Kurdish minority who constantly press for independence, and Turkey is more than happy to see ISIS take care of t heir “Kurdish” problem. ISIS wars against those Kurds who live pretty close to Turkey along with everybody else. Therefore, Turkey makes things easy on ISIS, at least in the past. I guess it is the enemy of my enemy is my friend thing.
7 years ago
Kerry means the more Isis kills us the more we are winning ?
7 years ago
I’ll say it again, “what a stooge”.
7 years ago
I know the guy is a dope, but help me with this: ISIS is Sunni and the conflict within Islam (with Shia) is a bread & butter issue with these guys…….why do they attack a heavily populated country of Sunnis? (73%)
7 years ago
You can be sure Obama and Kerry and Clinton will say the same thing when WMD nukes are exploded in western cities.
Put these traitor clowns in prison for any of thousands of treason acts … before far worse happens such as WMD terrorism.
7 years ago
The more he opens his mouth, the more he sounds like a fool
