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| Per Chris Mathews, We Need to Better Understand Terrorists | |
| 2005-11-21 | |
| Four years after 9/11 and the "crazy zeitgeist" that permeated the United States, most Americans have still not learned to know their enemies instead of just hating them, U.S. political journalist Chris Matthews says. In a speech to political science students at the University of Toronto yesterday, the host of the CNBC current affairs show Hardball had plenty of harsh words for U.S. President George W. Bush, as well as the political climate that has characterized his country for the past few years. "The period between 9/11 and Iraq was not a good time for America. There wasn't a robust discussion of what we were doing," Matthews said. "If we stop trying to figure out the other side, we've given up. The person on the other side is not evil -- they just have a different perspective." He said Bush squandered an opportunity to unite the world against terrorism and instead made decisions that have built up worldwide animosity against his administration.
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| Posted by:Captain America |
| #26 So who is he? Does he have a TV show or something? |
| Posted by: DMFD 2005-11-21 22:01 |
| #25 Such a GWOT military strategist that Mathews. He must have gained all of his expertise while serving in the Peace Corps. He's just another fowl smelling legacy of the Carter administration, preaching his Bush "HATE" to whacko Kanadian communists. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2005-11-21 20:36 |
| #24 Why make any effort to understand the islamo-terrorists if we do nothing with the knowledge? I understand they store weapons in Mosques yet we do not flatten the arms depot. They shoot from Mosques but we allow them to stand. Most terrorists are mid-20's and early 30's and from islamic country's but we search 90 year old Americans at the airport. Learn where they live, find them and eliminate them. Peace is only achieved by elimination or total unconditional surrender. |
| Posted by: airandee 2005-11-21 19:24 |
| #23 Thaique Flolump6420, I think I understand them well enough, I think most people on this board understand them well enough. Yeah perhaps I couldnt' do a doctoral thesis on their specific sicknesses but I think I've got it pretty well nailed down. Abu Grabb's little torture games were absolutely fine tuned to strike the fears of the terrorists, and those were reservists acting on their own. I'm pretty sure the higher ups know all they need to know. So the question is what value is it to the rest of America to fully understand the mindset of these shits? I'm happy to let FBI profilers get into the head of psychopaths, I don't care what makes KKK members tick. Why should I give two licks over the pathetic worldview of a terrorist. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2005-11-21 18:25 |
| #22 Chris, is this one of those do as I say not as I do moments? Why don't you try to understand Bush's perspective? I know the enemy, and you are among them. |
| Posted by: Gir 2005-11-21 17:52 |
| #21 We'll i think Chris is a jerk but he has a small point. We don't need to appease them, but I think there is much more that we could learn about the fears and desires of the terrorist. |
| Posted by: Thaique Flolump6420 2005-11-21 17:09 |
| #20 Let's open their heads and see what f*ck is wrong with them. Frontal lobotomy is O.K. too--maybe it will take away their murderous ways. |
| Posted by: John Q. Citizen 2005-11-21 16:53 |
| #19 Give Mathews two options: 1) Cuddle up to Zarqawi. 2) Cuddle up to an unexploded but live IED. I bet in reality he would chose number 2. |
| Posted by: RG 2005-11-21 16:52 |
| #18 Everytime I hear these LLL panzies talk I remember in school the kids who used to get picked on by the other kids and them just takin one to the face and with a dumb as* look asking why. I remember wondering why thier parents never told them they had to stand up for themselves or at least learning it the hard way. I wasnt a big kid but I took quite a few beat downs in my day although I never was just punked out. The Radicals point of view is simple, everyone who is not Muslim and Muslim in thier brand of Muslim is a Infedel dog and Infedels are to be killed since they dont count as humans just pigs and dogs. Kinda like Hitler you were either part of the super race or you were lamp shade material. What kind of compromise is possible with that kind of rational. and Mahou "and chris you are one of them" yeah I am with you 120% on that one man. These LLL anti-american zipos should be charged with sedition have pernament citizenship revocation then given a choice of destinations for their one way air plane ticket. peace out panzies let em go chll with Chirac and sip wine eat pastry talk sh*t about the americans all the while watching the nitetime glow of pariee burning by the Muslims who are just really misuderstood angry youths. Well at least for this generation cause by the next france will be nearly 40% Muslim and Parris will be Paresian. |
| Posted by: C-Low 2005-11-21 16:49 |
| #17 There are useful idiots and not useful idiots. Chris "Tool and Fool" Matthews falls in the not useful idiots category. |
| Posted by: John Q. Citizen 2005-11-21 16:43 |
| #16 AT said it well, I have learned the enemy and hate him for his barbarity. The more of this there is from the left, the clearer it is that they are also the enemy. They will merit only pity, but an enemy none the less. |
| Posted by: SR-71 2005-11-21 16:28 |
| #15 What a total assclown. The more I know about 'them', the more certain I am we have to nutralize and destroy them. Chris you are one of 'them'. |
| Posted by: Mahou Sensei Negi-bozu 2005-11-21 15:15 |
| #14 "most Americans have still not learned to know their enemies instead of just hating them" He talks as if the two were mutually exclusive. The fact that I've learned to know them is precisely why I hate them. |
| Posted by: AuburnTom 2005-11-21 15:08 |
| #13 Ahhh yess.. Chris Mathews AKA 'The Caveman' after the way he treated Michelle Malkin on his show. He resorted to name calling and wouldn't let her defend herself or even say anything. Asshole extraordinaire. He is one of the reasons I dislike MSNBC. Didn't Zike Miller verbally bitchslap him during the Republican Convention? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-11-21 14:43 |
| #12 "The person on the other side is not evil -- they just have a different perspective." Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot... If Chris Matthews had a brain, he would be ashamed. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2005-11-21 14:40 |
| #11 Ah UofT, Chomskiville North. Course, the same day, same town, kids were shooting each other in church, at a funeral. Just a different perspective I guess, nothing to see, move along. |
| Posted by: john 2005-11-21 14:40 |
| #10 "If we stop trying to figure out the other side, we've given up. The person on the other side is not evil -- they just have a different perspective." What the hell kind of political sophistry is this Chris? You've got to be kidding. Where in the hell have you been between 911 and Iraq? This is the kind of PC crap we have come to expect from the left-wing liberal moonbats. This is not critical thinking on your part. It is just the LLL MSM party line. |
| Posted by: John Q. Citizen 2005-11-21 14:03 |
| #9 "We need to better understand the enemy" IS NOT INVALID IF FOLLOWED BY "so that we may better neutralize them." ;-) [/hyperbole-putting-down] |
| Posted by: Edward Yee 2005-11-21 14:02 |
| #8 Chris Matthews? Wasn't he in the Witness Protection Program? No, wait. It was MSNBC. Sorry. It's an easy mistake to make. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-11-21 13:58 |
| #7 "If we stop trying to figure out the other side, we've given up. The person on the other side is not evil -- they just have a different perspective." Sure thing. And wolverines are just misunderstood cuddly little fluffy animals who would be our bestest friends if only we would snuggle up to them and make nice. The special high-octane holiday Kool-Aid must have hit the shelves early this year. most Americans have still not learned to know their enemies instead of just hating them Then there's people like us folks at Rantburg who have taken the time to know our enemies and hate them. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2005-11-21 13:57 |
| #6 It seems to be obligatory for all the Ted Kennedy types to say that it's that Rascally George who's finally pushed them over the edge to where they won't be voting republican any more. ("Yes, I worked for the Angela Davis for President campaign in '96, but it was a youthful indiscretion! I was only 49! I still considered myself a faithful conservative republican, until that chimp dubya came along!") |
| Posted by: Phil 2005-11-21 13:56 |
| #5 from Wikipedia: Matthews has worked for several Democratic politicians. He was a presidential speechwriter for four years during the administration of Jimmy Carter. He served as a top aide to long-time Speaker of the House of Representatives Tip O'Neill for six years. He worked in the U.S. Senate for five years on the staffs of Senators Frank Moss and Edmund Muskie before running for U. S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Despite working for Democrats, Matthews has said, "I'm more conservative than people think," and "I've voted Republican many times, (including) for George W. Bush in 2000." - October 3, 2003, Hardball [1] |
| Posted by: lotp 2005-11-21 13:50 |
| #4 I'm not sure what he's talking about. Between 9/11 and Iraq all he talked about on his show was Iraq to the point I stopped watching. Losing the arguement is not the same as not having the arguement Mr. Mathews. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2005-11-21 13:44 |
| #3 Chris Mathews? Well... whatever he did, it worked. I never heard of him before and now I have. Another case of media folks seeking to become the news rather than effectively report it. |
| Posted by: Fun Dung Poo 2005-11-21 13:44 |
| #2 Didn't he used to work for the Carter Administration??? |
| Posted by: macofromoc 2005-11-21 13:35 |
| #1 The Weather Channel gets better ratings than Hardball - he's been peeling of the skins of reasonableness, like an onion, getting down to his bitter Dem soul |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-11-21 13:29 |