Malala Yousafzai visits the WH tells Obama he's fuelling terrorism

[Montecresto]

"I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees," she said in the statement. "I also expressed my concerns that drone attacks are fueling terrorism. Innocent victims are killed in these acts, and they lead to resentment among the Pakistani people. If we refocus efforts on education it will make a big impact."

Read more here: Malala Yousafzai tells Obama drones are 'fueling terrorism' | Washington Watch | McClatchy DC

 

[JakeStarkey]

Focus on education and focus on the terrorists. The latter will kill the former.

 

[Montecresto]

Well perhaps I'm alone. But standing up to Obama was a bold move IMO, and what she said was the understatement of the so called "war on terror"

 

[tyroneweaver]

To obama everything is an ends to a means.
Terrorism can succeed or go away makes no difference to obama.
Because no matter what happens he will turn it to fit his political agenda.
ie Do ya really think obama cares drone strikes kill children if in the end it makes him look tuf on the war against terrorI
Its all collateral damage, hey if obamacare makes your insurance rates go up to make the dems more powerful. To bad

 

[tyroneweaver]

Focus on education and focus on the terrorists. The latter will kill the former.

are there any U of U mid east professors that have ties to the middle east and get funding from front groups from terrorist

 

[editec]

Is anyone here under the impression that our government doesn't KNOW its fueling terrorism?

They know..they do not care.

Just part of the cost of doing business there far as they're concerned.

 

[Montecresto]

Lets not forget its a Bush program continuing under Obama, albeit on steroids.

 

[Pete7469]

Lets not forget its a Bush program continuing under Obama, albeit on steroids.

If the amount of drone strikes happening now happened under Bush, especially as far as the moonbat messiah has spread them, there would be impeachment hearings.

I can't begrudge the intel community for taking out bad actors any way they can, but arbitrary missile strikes all over the world actually project weakness, not strength. If they're so certain an individual must be killed for the sake of global or national security, then a team needs to go in there and arrest them or kill them. Not blow the entire fucking village to hell. Lobbing missiles indiscriminately proves obozo doesn't have the balls to go toe to toe with these sheep fucking flea bag rock farmers.

 

[Montecresto]

Lets not forget its a Bush program continuing under Obama, albeit on steroids.

If the amount of drone strikes happening now happened under Bush, especially as far as the moonbat messiah has spread them, there would be impeachment hearings.

I can't begrudge the intel community for taking out bad actors any way they can, but arbitrary missile strikes all over the world actually project weakness, not strength. If they're so certain an individual must be killed for the sake of global or national security, then a team needs to go in there and arrest them or kill them. Not blow the entire fucking village to hell. Lobbing missiles indiscriminately proves obozo doesn't have the balls to go toe to toe with these sheep fucking flea bag rock farmers.

My statement was NOT intended as an excuse for Obama's drone use.

 

[TemplarKormac]

MALALA!

You go girl!

 

[BlindBoo]

You say that stuff under a Republican President and you're part of the Blame America Crowd.

Of course she is right as our bipartisan foreign interventionism has fueled terrorism.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Focus on education and focus on the terrorists. The latter will kill the former.

are there any U of U mid east professors that have ties to the middle east and get funding from front groups from terrorist

I don't know about questionable funding. https://www.google.com/#q=University+of+Utah+professors+and+middle+east+funding



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[Pete7469]

Lets not forget its a Bush program continuing under Obama, albeit on steroids.

If the amount of drone strikes happening now happened under Bush, especially as far as the moonbat messiah has spread them, there would be impeachment hearings.

I can't begrudge the intel community for taking out bad actors any way they can, but arbitrary missile strikes all over the world actually project weakness, not strength. If they're so certain an individual must be killed for the sake of global or national security, then a team needs to go in there and arrest them or kill them. Not blow the entire fucking village to hell. Lobbing missiles indiscriminately proves obozo doesn't have the balls to go toe to toe with these sheep fucking flea bag rock farmers.

My statement was NOT intended as an excuse for Obama's drone use.

I did not mean to insinuate it was.

I did not believe that indiscriminate bombings without troops on the ground anywhere near the target was a good idea even when Bush did it. We did that sort of shit in Vietnam, didn't work in our favor.

 

[Pete7469]

You say that stuff under a Republican President and you're part of the Blame America Crowd.

Of course she is right as our bipartisan foreign interventionism has fueled terrorism.

The first part is bullshit.

The "blame America crowd" promoted the idea that merely by supporting the state of Israel we DESERVED the 9/11 attacks.

The issue of lobbing missiles into mud huts or at a group of vehicles in Yemen is an entirely different matter.

Our "bipartisan intervention" is a problem. When we had a clearly defined enemy, and chased the bastards all over the world, set up flags in their AO's and personally killed them with small arms fire we projected strength. We had the resolve to face them head to head and engage them in battle.

We now have (puke) "leadership" that lobs ordinance without considering who else may be injured or killed, has no clearly defined enemy, since it has been reported we're arming and supporting the same assholes we were killing in Iraq and Afghanistan who the hell knows where our loyalty lies.

The moonbat messiah's "foreign policy" is a complete and utter goat fuck with a few football bats thrown in for measure.

 

[Spiderman]

Is anyone here under the impression that our government doesn't KNOW its fueling terrorism?

They know..they do not care.

Just part of the cost of doing business there far as they're concerned.

It's more than that. It's an excuse to exercise more control.

 

[paulitician]

She's right.

 

[Montecresto]

If the amount of drone strikes happening now happened under Bush, especially as far as the moonbat messiah has spread them, there would be impeachment hearings.

I can't begrudge the intel community for taking out bad actors any way they can, but arbitrary missile strikes all over the world actually project weakness, not strength. If they're so certain an individual must be killed for the sake of global or national security, then a team needs to go in there and arrest them or kill them. Not blow the entire fucking village to hell. Lobbing missiles indiscriminately proves obozo doesn't have the balls to go toe to toe with these sheep fucking flea bag rock farmers.

My statement was NOT intended as an excuse for Obama's drone use.

I did not mean to insinuate it was.

I did not believe that indiscriminate bombings without troops on the ground anywhere near the target was a good idea even when Bush did it. We did that sort of shit in Vietnam, didn't work in our favor.

Oh. Ok, I understand you now and of course agree.

 

[Montecresto]

She's right.

Of course she is, she only stated the obvious. An obvious that many Americans, including on this board, don't want to admit. Namely because the implication that the terrorist attacks we have had and will have are due, at least in part to US foreign policy. But that of itself is nothing profound, many Americans have been preaching this for a long time.

 

[Mr. H.]

It appears that she was correct. No?

In other news...

Pakistan Arrests Suspected Shooters of Malala Yousafzai

http://online.wsj.com/articles/pakistan-arrests-suspected-shooters-of-malala-yousafzai-1410536731