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Home Front: WoT
Kerry concedes: Terrorism is a bigger threat than climate change
2016-06-18
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
 this week acknowledged twice that the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 and the threat of terrorism around the world is a bigger threat than climate change, even though he has insisted in past years that climate is the bigger threat.

Kerry revealed his subtle change of thinking during his trip to Europe, where he twice indicated that when it comes to global threats, terrorism is first, and climate change is a very close second.

"[L]et me just say that one of the greatest challenges of our times besides the fight against extremism is to deal with the enormous battle of climate change," he said in Denmark Thursday. The phrase "besides the fight against extremism" indicates he sees terrorism as the top threat.

He made a similar comment in Norway on Wednesday, when at first seemed prepared to say climate is the bigger issue, but then conceded that terrorism ranks at the top.
Posted by:Fred

#9  Rats - Sinking Ship
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562   2016-06-18 20:00  

#8  We need the pic of the football of reality hitting him in the face, and we need it nowm
Posted by: regular joe   2016-06-18 15:11  

#7  Is it just me, or Jawn is switching. And if he does---what does it mean?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-06-18 13:29  

#6  "[L]et me just say that one of the greatest challenges of our times besides the fight against extremism is to deal with the enormous battle of climate change," he said in Denmark Thursday.

Looks like he's saying extremism instead of terrorism. You don't have to go around killing people to be labeled an extremist. Now, can we get a definition of extremism? What if, by extremist, he means anybody who doesn't agree with him?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2016-06-18 13:08  

#5  That must of been painful for him to say. The plebs must be catching on for him to throw a little bone their way.
Posted by: DarthVader   2016-06-18 10:25  

#4  Kerry revealed his subtle change of thinking

I'm surprised he didn't link the shootings by terrorists to climate change in his subtle change of thinking.
Posted by: JohnQC   2016-06-18 09:57  

#3  Mr. Rabbit, the inconvenience factor is actually a very complex algorithm which must include the proper values for the "awesomeness" variable and the "elite status" and the yacht size and the bike shorts coolness grade.

After that has been processed for each victim you will know if an attack was inconvenient, serious or catastrophic for JF'nK.

Posted by: AlanC   2016-06-18 08:33  

#2  When he was running for president he said he was gonna reduce terrorism to an "inconvenience". I never did learn how many dead Americans were < or = to "inconvenience".
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2016-06-18 07:13  

#1  Well, knock me over with a feather. A genius is born.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2016-06-18 00:51  

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