Another chance to empathize with our enemy

What is Hillary's approach going to be? How can we understand the desperation of the Taliban? Can we send them MREs? Do they believe in Santa? Maybe some towels and underwear? We need Sunniman to advise on this initiative. Could be a major political opening for Hillary....a libtard comeback of sorts.


Pakistan School Attack Taliban Militants Kill More Than 140 in Peshawar - NBC News

Hillary Clinton hasn't got one thing right in her whole life and I doubt if her comments on this tragedy will be any different. Talk about a stupid lying bitch but she takes the cake.
 
What is Hillary's approach going to be? How can we understand the desperation of the Taliban? Can we send them MREs? Do they believe in Santa? Maybe some towels and underwear? We need Sunniman to advise on this initiative. Could be a major political opening for Hillary....a libtard comeback of sorts.


Pakistan School Attack Taliban Militants Kill More Than 140 in Peshawar - NBC News

Hillary Clinton hasn't got one thing right in her whole life and I doubt if her comments on this tragedy will be any different. Talk about a stupid lying bitch but she takes the cake.
Cake!!!

That's it, we need to send more cake to the Taliban, in empathy.
 
Well she echo what the President said??
President Barack Obama slammed the attack and said America stands with the people of Pakistan and its government's efforts to fight terrorism.
...and it's government's efforts to fight terrorism...
Yeah..he said that
 
Well she echo what the President said??
President Barack Obama slammed the attack and said America stands with the people of Pakistan and its government's efforts to fight terrorism.
...and it's government's efforts to fight terrorism...
Yeah..he said that
He also said the war in Afghanistan is over. The man is an asshole.
 
We have the sound bite of all sound bites for 2016. Now all the Republicans have to do is come up with a Presidential candidate who will have the testicular fortitude to not hesitate to shove her words up her ass.

And a candidate who will ask her how any civilized human being could begin to empathize with a group of barbaric monsters that would burn a teacher alive in front of the students before killing the rest of the the babies.

Hillary: We Must Empathize With America's Enemies

Hillary We Must Empathize With America s Enemies The Weekly Standard
 
Well she echo what the President said??
President Barack Obama slammed the attack and said America stands with the people of Pakistan and its government's efforts to fight terrorism.
...and it's government's efforts to fight terrorism...
Yeah..he said that

The same gov't that hid Bin Laden. Obie is a geopolitical fool whose stupidity makes him dangerous.
 
"Trying to understand, in so far as psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of view."

I think it is impossible for most Americans to understand the Taliban or empathize their goals psychologically or otherwise.
 
"Trying to understand, in so far as psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of view."

I think it is impossible for most Americans to understand the Taliban or empathize their goals psychologically or otherwise.

Well I would certainly hope so.
I would not want to live in a country where most of the citizens can find common ground and sympathize with such people.
 
Well, Martha, what the fuck are you going to do about them? Leave them alone and hope for the best, or exterminate them? And when? This is one of the first questions for the zombies who would be candidates for 2016..
 
The far left does not empathize with the enemy, the far left uses terms they do not understand to promote their religious beliefs on others.

Like using words such as "Due Process" from 2003 - 2009 and ignoring this phrase when they elect their far left messiah..
 
Students tell their harrowing tales...

Pakistani pupils recall narrow escapes, carnage in Taliban slaughter
Tue Dec 16, 2014 - It began like any other morning in Pakistan's Army Public School in the northwestern city of Peshawar. Students pored over their books. Teachers ruffled through their notes and gave lectures.
In an instant, the peace was shattered - gunfire, smoke and dead bodies strewn across the school's halls and corridors, with crazed militants rushing from room to room shooting randomly at pupils and adults. At least 132 Pakistanis, most of them children, were killed in the broad daylight attack on the military-run school on Tuesday, an assault lauded by Taliban insurgents as revenge for the killings of their own relatives by the Pakistani army. Reuters interviews with witnesses showed most victims were shot in the first hours of the assault when gunmen sprayed the premises with bullets in an indiscriminate massacre. It was possible that some were also killed in the ensuing gunfight with Pakistani armed forces who stormed the building.

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A man carries a student, who was injured during an attack by Taliban gunmen on the Army Public School, after he received treatment at a hospital in Peshawar

The school in Peshawar, a Pakistani city on the edge of the country's turbulent tribal belt, is operated by the army. Although it enrols some civilian students, many of its pupils are children of army officials, the Taliban's intended target. The assault began at around 10 a.m. local time (12:00 p.m. ET)as a group of nine militants, suicide vests tightly strapped to their bodies, burst into the building, according to witnesses. Some said they were wearing Pakistani army uniforms. They bypassed the heavily guarded main entrance and slipped in through a less frequently used back entrance, the witnesses added.

Shahrukh Khan, 15, was shot in both legs but survived after hiding under a bench. "One of my teachers was crying, she was shot in the hand and she was crying in pain," he said as he lay on a bed in Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital. "One terrorist then walked up to her and started shooting her until she stopped making any sound. All around me my friends were lying injured and dead."

SUICIDE BOMBINGS
 
Even the terrorists condemn the Peshawar school attack...

Pakistani Terrorist Condemns Attack on School, Calls Islam ‘Religion of Peace’
December 17, 2014 – A leading Pakistani radical suspected of masterminding one of the deadliest terror attacks ever in South Asia issued a statement Tuesday condemning the attack on a school in Peshawar in which more than 140 people, mostly children, were killed.
In a lengthy Urdu statement posted on the website of his ostensibly charitable Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) organization, Hafiz Mohammad Saeed said Islam was a “religion of peace” and that the killing of women and children during jihad is forbidden. Tuesday’s attack on the army-run school in the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province was carried out by “enemies of Islam,” he said. (Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan, a close ally of the Afghan Taliban and al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility.) The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government highlighted Saeed’s comment on its Twitter feed: “No religion allows killing of children. Islam across all its branches FORBIDS killing of children/women - Hafiz Saeed.” Saeed is a U.S.-designated terrorist subject to a $10 million reward offer for allegedly masterminding “numerous attacks,” including the 2008 terrorist assault in Mumbai that left 166 people dead, six of them Americans.

Over a 60-hour period gunmen attacked a railway station, two hospitals, a municipal facility, a Jewish center, a cinema, a cafe, a bank and two hotels in India’s commercial capital. Among the dead were children as young as five, including a 13 year-old American girl, Naomi Scherr. Female victims included the pregnant wife of an American rabbi (The rabbi was also killed, while their two year-old son was rescued by his Indian nanny.) India blamed the attack on the Pakistani jihadist group Lashkar e-Toiba (LeT), which was founded by Saeed in the late 1980s – with the backing of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency – to fight Indian rule in Kashmir. Days after the attack, India handed Pakistan a list of 20 suspects topped by Saeed. The State Department says JuD is merely a front for LeT, and the U.S. “foreign terrorist organization” designation covers both names.

The U.S. has also accused LeT of carrying out attacks against coalition forces in Afghanistan, sometimes in collaboration with the Haqqani network, an Afghan Taliban faction. Among their alleged joint operations was a July 2008 suicide bombing at the Indian Embassy in Kabul in which 58 people died. A senior U.S. military officer has labeled LeT a “global threat.” Under pressure from India and the U.S., Pakistan did place Saeed under house arrest after the Mumbai attack but refused to indict or extradite him. Courts later ordered his release, and in May 2011, Saeed led protest rallies in Lahore over the death of Osama bin Laden. He called the dead terrorist a martyr and demanded that Pakistan sever ties with Washington. Despite being wanted by India and the U.S., Saeed is today not only a free man but a prominent one, a situation which India says is a reflection of Pakistan’s double standards on terrorism.

Just two weeks ago, he convened a two-day convention in Lahore, attracting supporters from across the country, some of whom traveled there by special buses and trains. T.V. Rajeswar, former director of India’s Intelligence Bureau, wrote in an article for the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi Tuesday that Pakistan’s government and the ISI had backed the high-profile rally “with finance and organization.” “It is a well-known fact that, right from the time of the Mumbai attacks on November 26, 2008 that Lashkar e-Toiba and its twin organization Jamaat-ud-Dawa are proxies of Pakistan army and the ISI, with the full backing of the Pakistani government itself,” he said. While even Pakistani analysts acknowledge that the government and ISI regard LeT as a strategic asset, Islamabad consistently denies claims of collusion, generally responding by insisting that Pakistan is a victim of terrorism, not a facilitator.

Terror as an ‘instrument of state policy’

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Pakistan executes militants and bombards tribal areas
December 19, 2014 — Pakistan hanged two convicted militants Friday in the country's first executions in years, while warplanes and ground forces pounded insurgent hideouts in a northwest region bordering Afghanistan — part of a stepped-up response to the Taliban slaughter of scores of schoolchildren.
Unchastened by criticism from all corners of the globe, the Taliban threatened earlier Friday to kill more children if executions were carried out as promised. "We can create a mourning situation at the homes of many army generals and politicians," spokesman Mohammad Khurassani said in a statement emailed to reporters. A key question now is whether attacking children will undermine the sympathy many Pakistanis have for the militants. Analysts say the Islamabad government needs strong public support to continue the fight against insurgents in the northwest.

Many Pakistanis believe the militants are holy warriors taking up arms against Pakistan only because the government aligned itself with the unpopular U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. A network of seminaries and religious schools promote religious hate, and some of their leading clerics command widespread respect in the country. Maulana Abdul Aziz, a radical cleric in Islamabad, warned in his Friday sermon at the famous Lal Masjid mosque about a backlash in the event of executions. Aziz expressed his sorrow over the schoolchildren's deaths but also called for ending the operation against the Taliban in the tribal regions of North Waziristan and Khyber. He called the Taliban "our brothers" and warned that if the military continues its bombardment, "there will be a reaction."

But there were signs, albeit small, that this type of speech will find a tougher audience in Pakistan after Tuesday's attack, when militants strapped with explosives broke into a military-run school in Peshawar and killed 148 people — almost all of them children. A few hundred people protested Friday night outside the Lal Masjid mosque, calling for an end to support for the militants. "We wanted to also send this message that it's not enough for the government to take action against terrorists but it's equally important that we should also take action against these supporters of the Taliban," said human rights activist Farzana Bari.

In schools across Pakistan, special classes were held Friday, with schoolchildren chanting prayers in memory of the victims of the Taliban slaughter. In mosques throughout the country, worshippers also offered special prayers for the massacred innocents in Peshawar. Another challenge for Pakistan will be creating a criminal justice system that can properly handle the militant networks. There are few convictions in militancy cases, partly because of a lack of protection for witnesses and judges. A Pakistani prosecutor said the government will try to cancel the bail granted by a judge Thursday to the main suspect in the 2008 attack that killed 166 people in the Indian city of Mumbai. An outraged India noted in a statement that "given the scale of the tragedy that Pakistan itself has faced in recent days, it is incumbent on it to realize that no compromise can ever be made with terrorists."

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appears determined to show he understands that. On Wednesday, he announced that he would lift a moratorium on executions in terrorism-related cases. The military then promptly signed the death warrants of six "hard-core terrorists" who had been earlier sentenced by military courts. The home minister for Punjab province confirmed the executions of the first two, Mohammed Aqeel and Arshad Mahmood, at a prison in the city of Faisalabad. "We have started these executions by hanging two terrorists," Shuja Khanzada told The Associated Press. "Today's executions of terrorists will boost the morale of the nation, and we are planning to hang more terrorists next week."

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Even the terrorists condemn the Peshawar school attack...

Pakistani Terrorist Condemns Attack on School, Calls Islam ‘Religion of Peace’
December 17, 2014 – A leading Pakistani radical suspected of masterminding one of the deadliest terror attacks ever in South Asia issued a statement Tuesday condemning the attack on a school in Peshawar in which more than 140 people, mostly children, were killed.
In a lengthy Urdu statement posted on the website of his ostensibly charitable Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) organization, Hafiz Mohammad Saeed said Islam was a “religion of peace” and that the killing of women and children during jihad is forbidden. Tuesday’s attack on the army-run school in the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province was carried out by “enemies of Islam,” he said. (Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan, a close ally of the Afghan Taliban and al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility.) The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government highlighted Saeed’s comment on its Twitter feed: “No religion allows killing of children. Islam across all its branches FORBIDS killing of children/women - Hafiz Saeed.” Saeed is a U.S.-designated terrorist subject to a $10 million reward offer for allegedly masterminding “numerous attacks,” including the 2008 terrorist assault in Mumbai that left 166 people dead, six of them Americans.

Over a 60-hour period gunmen attacked a railway station, two hospitals, a municipal facility, a Jewish center, a cinema, a cafe, a bank and two hotels in India’s commercial capital. Among the dead were children as young as five, including a 13 year-old American girl, Naomi Scherr. Female victims included the pregnant wife of an American rabbi (The rabbi was also killed, while their two year-old son was rescued by his Indian nanny.) India blamed the attack on the Pakistani jihadist group Lashkar e-Toiba (LeT), which was founded by Saeed in the late 1980s – with the backing of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency – to fight Indian rule in Kashmir. Days after the attack, India handed Pakistan a list of 20 suspects topped by Saeed. The State Department says JuD is merely a front for LeT, and the U.S. “foreign terrorist organization” designation covers both names.

The U.S. has also accused LeT of carrying out attacks against coalition forces in Afghanistan, sometimes in collaboration with the Haqqani network, an Afghan Taliban faction. Among their alleged joint operations was a July 2008 suicide bombing at the Indian Embassy in Kabul in which 58 people died. A senior U.S. military officer has labeled LeT a “global threat.” Under pressure from India and the U.S., Pakistan did place Saeed under house arrest after the Mumbai attack but refused to indict or extradite him. Courts later ordered his release, and in May 2011, Saeed led protest rallies in Lahore over the death of Osama bin Laden. He called the dead terrorist a martyr and demanded that Pakistan sever ties with Washington. Despite being wanted by India and the U.S., Saeed is today not only a free man but a prominent one, a situation which India says is a reflection of Pakistan’s double standards on terrorism.

Just two weeks ago, he convened a two-day convention in Lahore, attracting supporters from across the country, some of whom traveled there by special buses and trains. T.V. Rajeswar, former director of India’s Intelligence Bureau, wrote in an article for the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi Tuesday that Pakistan’s government and the ISI had backed the high-profile rally “with finance and organization.” “It is a well-known fact that, right from the time of the Mumbai attacks on November 26, 2008 that Lashkar e-Toiba and its twin organization Jamaat-ud-Dawa are proxies of Pakistan army and the ISI, with the full backing of the Pakistani government itself,” he said. While even Pakistani analysts acknowledge that the government and ISI regard LeT as a strategic asset, Islamabad consistently denies claims of collusion, generally responding by insisting that Pakistan is a victim of terrorism, not a facilitator.

Terror as an ‘instrument of state policy’

See also:

Pakistan executes militants and bombards tribal areas
December 19, 2014 — Pakistan hanged two convicted militants Friday in the country's first executions in years, while warplanes and ground forces pounded insurgent hideouts in a northwest region bordering Afghanistan — part of a stepped-up response to the Taliban slaughter of scores of schoolchildren.
Unchastened by criticism from all corners of the globe, the Taliban threatened earlier Friday to kill more children if executions were carried out as promised. "We can create a mourning situation at the homes of many army generals and politicians," spokesman Mohammad Khurassani said in a statement emailed to reporters. A key question now is whether attacking children will undermine the sympathy many Pakistanis have for the militants. Analysts say the Islamabad government needs strong public support to continue the fight against insurgents in the northwest.

Many Pakistanis believe the militants are holy warriors taking up arms against Pakistan only because the government aligned itself with the unpopular U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. A network of seminaries and religious schools promote religious hate, and some of their leading clerics command widespread respect in the country. Maulana Abdul Aziz, a radical cleric in Islamabad, warned in his Friday sermon at the famous Lal Masjid mosque about a backlash in the event of executions. Aziz expressed his sorrow over the schoolchildren's deaths but also called for ending the operation against the Taliban in the tribal regions of North Waziristan and Khyber. He called the Taliban "our brothers" and warned that if the military continues its bombardment, "there will be a reaction."

But there were signs, albeit small, that this type of speech will find a tougher audience in Pakistan after Tuesday's attack, when militants strapped with explosives broke into a military-run school in Peshawar and killed 148 people — almost all of them children. A few hundred people protested Friday night outside the Lal Masjid mosque, calling for an end to support for the militants. "We wanted to also send this message that it's not enough for the government to take action against terrorists but it's equally important that we should also take action against these supporters of the Taliban," said human rights activist Farzana Bari.

In schools across Pakistan, special classes were held Friday, with schoolchildren chanting prayers in memory of the victims of the Taliban slaughter. In mosques throughout the country, worshippers also offered special prayers for the massacred innocents in Peshawar. Another challenge for Pakistan will be creating a criminal justice system that can properly handle the militant networks. There are few convictions in militancy cases, partly because of a lack of protection for witnesses and judges. A Pakistani prosecutor said the government will try to cancel the bail granted by a judge Thursday to the main suspect in the 2008 attack that killed 166 people in the Indian city of Mumbai. An outraged India noted in a statement that "given the scale of the tragedy that Pakistan itself has faced in recent days, it is incumbent on it to realize that no compromise can ever be made with terrorists."

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appears determined to show he understands that. On Wednesday, he announced that he would lift a moratorium on executions in terrorism-related cases. The military then promptly signed the death warrants of six "hard-core terrorists" who had been earlier sentenced by military courts. The home minister for Punjab province confirmed the executions of the first two, Mohammed Aqeel and Arshad Mahmood, at a prison in the city of Faisalabad. "We have started these executions by hanging two terrorists," Shuja Khanzada told The Associated Press. "Today's executions of terrorists will boost the morale of the nation, and we are planning to hang more terrorists next week."

MORE

That's the way you deal with them, superior firepower.
 
Arrests Made In Pakistan School Shooting...

Pakistan school attack arrests made, officials say
Dec 21, 2014 ~ 132 children killed in attack
Authorities made several arrests in the case of the Taliban school attack that killed 148 in the northwestern city of Peshawar, on Sunday, officials said. "Quite a few suspects who were facilitators in one way or the other have been taken into custody," Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said, adding that the interrogations were "moving ahead in a positive manner." He did not disclose their identities or say how many they were.

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Pakistani volunteers carry a student injured in the shootout at a school under attack by Taliban gunmen earlier this week. The attacked killed a total of 148 people, mostly children.

Seven Taliban gunmen wearing explosives belts stunned the world on Tuesday by storming into the military run school and slaughtering 148 people, including 132 students. Another nearly 121 students were wounded in the ensuing eight-hour siege of the school, located in an area where many military families live. The group claims it fights to establish a ruling system based on its own harsh brand of Islam. It has killed thousands over nearly a decade. The Taliban say they attacked the school in revenge for an army operation against them in North Waziristan, launched in mid-June. The army says it has so far killed over 1,200 militants in the operation.

Hideouts bombed

The government bombed the militants' hideouts in country's tribal area along the Afghan border in response, and also lifted a ban on the execution of convicted terrorists. Over the weekend, it acted upon the lifting of the ban, executing six men convicted on terrorism charges. Two of the convicts were hanged Friday, and another four on Sunday, according to two Pakistani government officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to disclose the information to the media.

All six belonged to local Pakistani militant groups who had turned against the state, and were convicted for involvement in two attempts to assassinate former President Pervez Musharraf. One was also convicted of leading a militant siege of Pakistani army headquarters in garrison city of Rawalpindi in 2009. Local militants have threatened attacks to avenge the hanged men. Khan, the minister, said Pakistan was at war with the militants. He appealed to the nation to help authorities in a countrywide crackdown on the insurgents.

Pakistan school attack arrests made officials say - World - CBC News

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U.S. drone strike, Pakistan forces kill at least 10 Taliban fighters
Dec. 20, 2014 | Around 200 Taliban fighters killed since Tuesday's school massacre in Peshawar, which left 148 people dead.
A U.S. drone fired two missiles at militant hideout in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least five Taliban fighters, two security officials said. In a separate operation, the military said Pakistani security forces killed five "terrorists" on the outskirts of Peshawar, where the Pakistani Taliban carried out a school massacre earlier this week, killing 148 people, mainly children.

The attack shocked the nation and prompted a massive military response in the tribal regions along the Afghan border, longtime strongholds of both foreign and local militants. Pakistani air strikes and ground operations in the Khyber region — where the school attack is believed to have emanated — have killed around 200 militants.

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A Pakistan army soldier stands guard in the Army Public School in Peshawar

The drone strike took place in the town of Datta Khel in North Waziristan, where Pakistani troops have been carrying out a major operation against local and foreign militants since June, the officials said. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media, said the men killed in the drone strike fought under local Pakistani Taliban commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur. It was not immediately clear if the drone strike was connected to the school massacre.

U.S. officials rarely if ever comment on the covert drone program, which has eliminated several top militants but has also resulted in civilian casualties, making it extremely unpopular among Pakistanis. Also on Saturday, a security official and a police officer were killed during a shootout with militants in Peshawar, police officer Ijaz Ahmed said. He said two militants were killed.

U.S. drone strike Pakistan forces kill at least 10 Taliban fighters - World Israel News Haaretz
 
"Another chance to empathize with our enemy"
Sounds strange. Who is our enemy? Does anybody really think that America has enemies or allies? America has business interests and as you know there are no enemies and friends in business. 35 years ago we thought that Russia is the Evil Empire, in 90's they were our friends now they are bad guys again. Just business.
 
The attack hardened public opinion against extremism...

Vengeance call at attack anniversary
Thu, Dec 17, 2015 - PAKISTAN MOURNS: State TV carried a live broadcast of the memorial ceremony at the army-run school in Peshawar that was the scene of last year’s killings
Pakistan’s leader yesterday called for vengeance under portraits of children killed by Taliban bullets as the country marked the first anniversary of a school massacre that left 151 people dead in its worst-ever extremist attack. Families of the victims along with military and political leaders attended an emotional ceremony at the army-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar to mark the assault, which mostly claimed the lives of schoolchildren.

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Pakistanis yesterday rally in connection with the first anniversary of the attack on an army-run school in Peshawar that killed 151 people.​

Relatives were accompanied by students bearing images of their loved ones as they spoke one by one of children with bright smiles who worried about their hair and handwriting, but had dreams of being artists and engineers. “My children, today I make this promise to you, that I will take revenge for every drop of your blood,” Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said, addressing the massacre victims directly. The ceremony, which a military official said was attended by about 2,500 guests including celebrities and sports stars, was broadcast live on state television.

Pakistan Army Chief General Raheel Sharif and opposition leader Imran Khan were also in attendance. Earlier, the parents of the 134 children killed in the hours-long siege visited their children’s graves in Peshawar. “We think a lot about the students who lost their lives,” Abu Bakar, a teacher who was shot three times as he threw himself in front of fleeing children during the siege, said, adding that the loss was “something that cannot be described.” “This should not have happened to them, they were innocent students,” he said. “They came here for studies, they were not at war with anyone.”

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We have the sound bite of all sound bites for 2016. Now all the Republicans have to do is come up with a Presidential candidate who will have the testicular fortitude to not hesitate to shove her words up her ass.

And a candidate who will ask her how any civilized human being could begin to empathize with a group of barbaric monsters that would burn a teacher alive in front of the students before killing the rest of the the babies.

Hillary: We Must Empathize With America's Enemies

Hillary We Must Empathize With America s Enemies The Weekly Standard
I guess we have one now?
 

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