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| Ben Carson: Destroy Them |
| 2015-11-15 |
| The Mail employs irony Ben Carson brought his trademark soft-spoken resolve to Orlando, Florida on Friday, telling reporters after a speech at a Republican Party event that if he were president he would 'destroy' the 'global jihadist movement' behind the still-developing mass killings in Paris. 'There are those out there who have a thirst for innocent blood, in an attempt to spread their philosophy and their will across this globe,' Carson said during a brief press conference. 'And we must redouble our efforts and our resolve to resist them, not only to contain them but to eliminate that kind of hatred in the world.' Asked how he would handle the threat of violent Islamists if he were elected president, Carson became even more soft-spoken than normal. 'I think America's involvement should be trying to eliminate them completely,' he said. 'Destroy them!' Carson's press conference came shortly after his chief Republican rival, billionaire Donald Trump, abruptly canceled his own press conference, leaving reporters in the same room scratching their heads. DailyMail.com asked Carson how he would persuade Americans that if a Paris-style attack were to hit the United States, his calm, low-volume style wouldn't hold him back from mounting a vigorous and energetic response. 'I would say strength is not determined by the number of decibels in your voice,' Carson responded. And if he held the Oval Office, he predicted, 'I think that will be very apparent to people very quickly.' After Trump called off his press conference, his only response to the deadly massacres came in the form of a single tweet. 'My prayers are with the victims and hostages in the horrible Paris attacks. May God be with you all,' the real estate tycoon tweeted shortly before Carson took the podium to brief the press. Initially, Trump's tweet spelled 'God' with a lower-case 'g.' After DailyMail.com asked his campaign for an explanation, the first tweet disappeared and a corrected version was posted on Twitter. Carson's response was more detailed, and possessed of a hushed intensity voters seldom see from the medical legend. He launched into a litany of pledges, representing his willingness to commit American resources wherever Muslim radicals strike. 'Think about this on a global level,' he urged. 'I would be working with our allies using every source known to man – in terms of economic resources, in terms of covert resources, overt resources, military resources, things-that-they-don't-know-about resources, in an attempt not to contain them, but to eliminate them before they eliminate us.' 'You have to recognize,' he lectured softly, 'that the global jihadist movement is an existential threat which is very different than anything that we've faced previously.' Asked whether he would consider committing the U.S. military in what amounts to a religious war, Carson said he would. 'Boots on the ground would probably be important,' he explained. Carson also broke with Obama on the thorny question of accepting refugees from war-torn Syria, parrying a question about whether he would send them back to the Middle East if he wins the White House. 'I would not allow them to come in the first place,' he said. 'If we're going to be bringing 200,000 people over here from that region,' Carson mused: 'If I were one of the leaders of the global jihadist movement, and I didn't infiltrate that group of people with my people, that would be almost malpractice. Of course they're going to infiltrate them.' 'To bring them here,' he added, 'when we have tens of millions of our own people who are suffering economically, doesn't make any sense.' Steely-eyed pic at link |
| Posted by:KBK |
| #4 There are four noises that scare me: My fathers drop in tone A switchblade opening A shotgun cocking 2 keys turning |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-11-15 12:52 |
| #3 Exactly, Blossom. A gorilla thumps his chest and bellows -- a soldier fights reluctantly, without anger, but with every asset available. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2015-11-15 01:21 |
| #2 I give more weight to the man who drops his voice when speaking of extreme action than the one who trumpets. |
| Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2015-11-15 00:52 |
| #1 Why should a rational observer not classify this and similar statements as mere empty rhetoric? 9/11 was an order of magnitude bigger. 9/11 was an attack on the world's lone superpower. Weeks after 9/11 the POTUS threatened the Taliban with destruction if they didn't comply with his ultimatum. The Taliban ignored the ultimatum. There was an extremely restrained military response. A month after 9/11 the US government supported Taliban participation in the Afghan government. etc.etc. In 2015 no one talks about destroying the Taliban anymore. Precedents matter. The IS has nothing fear from the West. Islamic totalitarianism has nothing to fear from the West. The West has turned itself into a suicidal, masochistic finlandized joke. </rant> |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-11-15 00:37 |