Kristol: The Russians ‘in some ways have brought’ suicide bombings ‘on themselves.’

[kpete]

Source: Think Progress

Kristol: The Russians ‘in some ways have brought’ suicide bombings ‘on themselves.’ »

Earlier today, two “female suicide bombers set off huge explosions in two subway stations in central Moscow,” killing more than three dozen people. According to the New York Times, Russian officials suspect that the bombing near the offices of the successor to the Soviet-era K.G.B “was intended as a message to the security services, which have helped lead the crackdown on Islamic extremism in Chechnya and other parts of the Caucasus region in southern Russia.” On Bill Bennett’s radio show this morning, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, citing Russian policy in Chechnya, said that the Russians “in some ways have brought” the terrorism “on themselves”:

BENNETT: The Russians will be tougher than most countries on this stuff, right?

KRISTOL: Yeah, they’ve been pretty brutal in Chechnya and in some ways have brought this, I’ve got to say, on themselves. But, you know, the trouble is that people use legitimate grievances and of course become — a fair number of Chechens went to Afghanistan to fight against us and the Chechnyans were treated just horribly, have been treated horribly by the Russians. But obviously that’s no excuse for being a suicide bomber.

BENNETT: Yeah, between, we were talking earlier, between a repressive regime and an Islamist terrorist, I guess you’ve got to side with the repressive regime.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/29/kristol-russia-bombings/

[Burma Jones]

1. Wow, the intellectual core of the Right Wing.........

My head hurts....

[Supersedeas]

37. high quality Republican rhetoric

[Egnever]

2. Odd that he recognizes that heavy handed tactics lead to suicide bombers

but can only put it together when tied to other countries.

[hlthe2b]

6. Exactly...

[bc3000]

13. Are you trying to say they don't hate the russians for their freedoms?

Interesting... Isn't that supposed to be the prime motivating factor for Islamic terrorists?

[ShortnFiery]

25. Odd is not the word for it. CREEPY is more apt.

Whoa! Insight from one each, hard-ass, right-wing tool, William Kristol?

Will wonders ever cease. ;)

[Canuckistanian]

35. THAT's the point I was looking for

Not that it would make any impact on HIM.

[yurbud]

36. the laws of gravity don't apply to us

just other countries.

[Walk away]

3. There is a special place in Hell waiting for William Kristol....

He will have to spend eternity listening to Sarah Palin constantly but be unable to speak. 24 hours a day/ 365 days a year.

[Robb]

4. LOL

...Some days it feels like we're already in that Hell. :D

[SkyDaddy7]

19. I just said that to my wife!!!!!

I told her just this weekend that I honestly think we have all died & gone to hell...Sarah Palin & the Tea Baggers are on every channel! LOL!

Thank for the laugh!

[hlthe2b]

7. I would add spinning in an eternal state of vertigo...

given his life's history of contorting the truth.

[yava]

15. Walk away: I don't agree...

I propose 8 days/week or more of Palin talk, 36h/day and 380 days/year as rehabilitation minimum :)

[gratuitous]

5. And the circle comes full round

Bill Kristol now agreeing with Ward Churchill. Did you ever think you'd see the day? Pop quiz, Mr. Kristol: Are there any countries that the United States has been similarly brutal to as Russia has been to Chechnya? And if some of the more horribly treated survivors of American brutality retaliate as the Chechens apparently have, will you say that the victims in the United States brought this on themselves? You'll have to mud wrestle Bill Bennett, apparently, as he will side with the repressive regime over the terrorists.

I for one hope that that would be a fight to the mutual death.

[pattmarty]

14. I would pay to fucking see that.

[upi402]

28. +1^

Make it sugar cookie dough and they'd be in stealth mode

[FarCenter]

8. The proxy war against the Soviet Union wasn't limited to Afghanistan

CIA sponsored thrid parties were active in the Caucasus and Central Asia as well. Some of the Chechens, Uzbecks, Uighurs, etc., were to fight the Soviets in their own areas, while others were recruited to Afghanistan for training and/or to help the Mujahidin. Some of those stayed afterwards to help Al Qaeda and got captured and sent to Guantanamo.

[regnaD kciN]

9. Hmmm...I wonder Kristol's reaction would have been to this...

:shrug:

[MindandSoul]

10. More hypocrisy??? WE were VICTIMs of 9/11, but the RUSSIANS are to blame

for this terrorist attack. . .Right!. . .another "blame the victim" when it arranges you!

[Jefferson23]

11. Oh this is rich , coming from these two bright lights...sheesh.

[pattmarty]

12. He is the product of what happens when you get two blue blooded............

.............scions of the NYC upper class and he is what, a piece of shit with absolutely no fucking brains at all?

[flakey_foont]

16. Asshole

[CLANG]

17. Just fucking great! Kristol you ass!!

[Roland99]

18. Come on, Bill. You can do it. Come on. Put 2 and 2 together. You can do it!

The U.S. has brought this upon themselves.



Come on, Bill. Admit you are wrong! Admit you are a lying, batshit-insane, war mongering, piece of shit, motherfucker.

[Uncle Joe]

30. You don ask much, Roland.

"Come on, Bill. Admit you are wrong! Admit you are a lying, batshit-insane, war mongering, piece of shit, motherfucker."




:rofl: :thumbsup:

[Roland99]

34. Damn! I forgot something...updated version below....

lying, hypocritical, two-faced, batshit-insane, war-mongering, piece of shit douchebag of a motherfucker.



There...a bit more accurate!

[Odin2005]

20. Kristol, you fucking hypocritical asshole. Now you sound like that other asshole Ward Churchill.

:puke:

[samsingh]

21. i guess the irony and hypocracy of blaming victims is lost on kristol

and bennett.
these two are pathetic jokes.

[nealmhughes]

22. Billy admitted that after he finished his PhD he did not want to teach.

Said it would be too "tiresome." I guess he just let Pap and Midge set him up instead. What does one expect from such loathsome people as parents?

[upi402]

23. Conservatives HAVE TO blame the victims n/t

[hobbit709]

27. In his case it really was Piled Higher and Deeper.

[librechik]

24. How dare you! By that logic, the US brought 9/11 on itself!

oops...That could never happen. But the Russians could do exactly what we do and THEY ARE GUILTY!!!

Love the consistency of neoconnage...

[MindandSoul]

31. That's right: Hypocrisy again! WE were victims of 9/11, but the Russians are responsible

for this terrorist attack!

What the heck????

[Naturalist111]

26. Now what was the reason our Diplomacy took a downward

spiral during the Bush years? Help me remember.

[Old Troop]

29. Let's be careful

Threads on DU have excused this atrocity as well.

[MadMaddie]

32. The victim brought it upon themselve mantra

The Repugs never change....

The Russians will crush them.....I have no sympathy for terrorist.

[Fuzz]

33. You have got to be fucking kidding me.

[cloudbase]

38. Are Chechnyans

anything like Kosovoans?