Charlie Hebdo Attacks Legitimate?

[-Talbot-]

http://www.ijreview.com/2015/11/474450-john-kerry-sees-the-legitimacy-no-wait-rationale-behind-the-charlie-hebdo-attacks/

[jno]

a fairly minor slip of the tongue compared with anything you might get from George W.

He has a point with what he was saying: that the Charlie attack was a revenge attack on someone the attackers thought was a legitimate target, this week's seem to have been more or less random.

[ummmm]

He's a twonk. Think it, don't say it!

[birdie1971]

Clearly that was a mistake. He didn't mean to say it.

[ichkeria]

A mistake he actually realised he had made as soon as he said it and corrected himself. I've done that many times and not realised, so I'm not going to criticise him. His meaning seems clear to me: he's emphasising the apparent randomness of the targets.
Ultimately tho the 'legitimacy' is the same in the eyes of the perpetrators. And the planning probably even more intricate. It's astounding to think so few gunmen could cause so many stacks in such a short space of time

[ichkeria]

*attacks

[naomi24]

//It's astounding to think so few gunmen could cause so many attacks in such a short space of time //

^That's exactly what I thought. Imagine, say 50 or 100, of them working in unison.

[mikey4444]

Simple slip of the tongue.

[-Talbot-]

It is a slip of the tongue that a Secretary of State should not be making and even his correction to his first comment ... you think that is right?

"not a legitimacy, but a rationale that you could attach yourself to somehow and say, okay, they’re really angry because of this and that."



You can see the rationale in shooting people dead for drawing a few cartoons?

[ichkeria]

"It is a slip of the tongue that a Secretary of State should not be making and even his correction to his first comment ... you think that is right?

It isn't a question of "right". I can see what he is getting at, albeit it in a clumsy way. It isn't worth all the hand-wringing and navel-gazing. In fact that whole link is rather pathetic.

[-Talbot-]

but a rationale that you could attach yourself to somehow and say, okay, they’re really angry because of this and that.


Well if you lot can 'attach yourself somehow' to the notion that there is rationale in shooting dead some cartoonist for drawing a beardy bloke all I can say is

What The Funicular!