President Obama’s counterterrorism advisor, Mr. John Brennan:
Hezbollah started out as purely a terrorist organization back in the early 1980s and has evolved significantly over time. And now it has members of parliament, in the cabinet; there are lawyers, doctors, others who are part of the Hezbollah organization.”However, within Hezbollah, there’s still a terrorist core. And hopefully those elements within the Shia community in Lebanon and within Hezbollah at large – they’re going to continue to look at that extremist terrorist core as being something that is anathema to what, in fact, they’re trying to accomplish in terms of their aspirations about being part of the political process in Lebanon. And so, quite frankly, I’m pleased to see that a lot of Hezbollah individuals are in fact renouncing that type of terrorism and violence (who are those types “who are renouncing violence within Hizbullah?) and are trying to participate in the political process in a very legitimate fashion.”
Read it all. Of course, ETA, Hamas, FARC, etc. all have lawyers, doctors, even priests/clerics. So, are we going to consider them as legitimate just because of that? Their terrorizing, threatening, menacing, blackmailing agenda is worth nothing? Doesn’t Mr. Brennan thinks that just adding some kind of “humanitarian” work to a criminal mob gang he will be considering them as “only terrorist in the core”? Was Al Capone’s organization only “at core” mob because people inside it help each other to meet their goals, whatever the tools and the goals were? Would he consider KKK as “not very bad” if their members would begin by having some hospitals even if Black people weren’t allowed to enter (I doubt a Jew is allowed to receive aid from Hizbullah doctors)?
This counterterrorism advisor is absolutely mindless: he doesn’t have common sense enough to think about the consequences of what he has said and, what is more, he couldn’t mind less about them.
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