Norm MacDonald Quotes

Two months later the attack of September 11 took place. CIA Director Tenant had been do alarmed by the information that the CIA had obtained that he immediately called the National Security Advisor to arrange a briefing at the White House. This was attended by Rich B, Tenant, and his deputy for counter-terrorism, Cofer Black. Black recommended that the United States immediately go on a “war footing.” It is not known what Rice discussed with President Bush but the nation did not go on a war footing and there was no alert even of the airports where the terrorists started their attack taking over planes. Tenant would later say that one of his biggest regrets was that he did not take the matter to the President personally when his meeting with Rice produced no action.

Some of the Prophet’s followers by modern standards were very violent and urged attacks on innocent people in order to intimidate others. He was expelled from his Egyptian university and arrested, tried and found guilty of “holding religion in contempt”. Which is a crime in most Islamic countries. He also “insulted” the President. He is the first blogger to have been jailed in Egypt for the contents of his blog. See {585058}.

This quotation was used by many who opposed foreign aid to Egypt. At the time, Egypt was the second largest recipient of American foreign aid and yet there were leading Egyptians who held views like this. Advocates of aid to Egypt argued that it was in large part the American aid that was preventing radicals like Sabahi from controlling Egypt.

In most religions, the clerics generally denounce violence especially where innocent people are involved as do many Islamic clerics throughout the world. However, a very large proportion of the Islamic Clergy not only condones violence but actually urges it and uses their interpretation of religious duty to motivate people in that direction. They tend to drown out the pacifistic Muslim clerics and in some cases they call for their death for heresy, thus intimidating many Islamic moderates.

This terrorist and his cadre were Muslims and in the Muslim religion, one who dies defending Islam is a martyr and goes immediately to Paradise where he is given a special place and 72 virgins. The planners and leaders of these Islamic terrorist enterprises somehow never themselves take advantage of the opportunity to become martyrs, but instead recruit gullible young men for the “opportunity.” Husin was killed in a shootout with Indonesian police and the written plan was recovered from his personal computer.

36 days later, September 11, he did strike. See {617467} for some of the specific contents. The memo was kept secret by the Bush administration until public pressure as a result of the 9-11 Commission hearings forced the declassification and release. At that point it became clear that there was no reason that the memo could not have been released much earlier except that it was embarrassing. See {637530} and {637533} for two other Bin Laden Warnings that Bush and his team ignored.

She was commenting on the incident when in 2013, Congress awarded its highest honor to the 4 young Black girls who were murdered in Birmingham, Alabama at the height of the Civil Rights Movement by the KKK who set off a bomb in the 16th Street Baptist Church. The sister of Addie Mae Collins, one of the murdered girls, who herself was wounded in the bombing, refused the medal on behalf of her dead sister. She resented the fact that it had taken all these years for Congress to make this gesture and then would not do anything that might cost money such as monetary restitution. When the Muslim terrorists murdered people in the 9-11 World Trade Center attacks, Congress swiftly arranged for restitution payments to go to the relatives of the murdered victims and to those wounded. However to many people, when white terrorists murder black victims no restitution many comes forth—only a medal. See {634035} for the sister’s statement.

There were really no American national interests involved in the Civil War in Lebanon. A conservative like Reagan could simply withdraw while if a liberal Democrat did the same thing, he would be castigated by the right for showing weakness and inviting attacks on our diplomats, troops, and citizens all over the world. There were a few ultra conservatives who objected to Reagan’s decision and several, decades later, blamed this “weakness” as the facilitator of subsequent terrorist attacks on our embassies, and even 9-11.

If there is a group from whom a constant supply of volunteer suicide bombers is drawn, and who honestly believe that death while fighting for Islam is desirable, then deterrence will not be an effective strategy. This is a very hard reality for us to face because the vast majority of our historical experience has been with people who were moved by deterrence techniques.

An assassin had tried to kill the archduke and failed. In response to the complaints the mayor changed the archduke’s route the following day when he was successfully assassinated provoking World War I.