Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Thursday, David Rothkopf, CEO and editor of The FP Group, which publishes Foreign Policy magazine, warned against European authorities being too aggressive in fighting Islamic terrorism following the brutal attack in Paris: “I think we have to be just as worried about the reaction to the attack from nationalists, from right-wingers,<\/strong> from people who have sought to drive this wedge…between the Islamic communities and the mainstream communities in Europe….it’s very important that we recognize the value of restraint in response to these things.<\/strong>“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n[emphasis in the original]<\/p>\n
pw susses out the subtext so you don’t have to: “Instead of worrying about the mass killing of cartoonists, we should instead be focused on the backlash to such barbaric killings — which almost never come — so that we don’t find ourselves in a “cycle of violence” where one group keeps overreacting to mass murder in the name of Islam by way of cursing the Islamists who perpetrated the outrage. Which is just as bad as storming a building and shooting people in cold blood for cartoons, then killing police officers. I counsel restraint. And for the love of God — and his Prophet, peace be upon him — let the Islamists know that I’m one of the thinky<\/em> kind of pundits who is on their side. Like Hillary, I empathize with the poor 7th-century throwbacks. So no need for them to show up to my place of business with AK-47s.”<\/p>\nMoments later, he cited the Abu Ghraib prison scandal as a cause for the massacre: “You know, one of the reports has it that one of these guys who led this attack was radicalized by reading about Abu Ghraib, that prior to that he was not an extremist,<\/strong> and after that he moved into this vein of thought.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n[emphasis in original]<\/p>\n
pw susses again: “Please overlook my willingness to infantalize these servants of God — and the Prophet, peace be upon him — as well as the rather obvious disconnect in my argument, where I contend that Abu Ghraib radicalized one of these butchers, thus relieving him of the bulk of responsibility for his actions, even while I would never in a million years allow that the shooting at the satirical paper of cartoonists and editors could in any way justify the kind of radicalization that would be evident in the reaction<\/em> to the attack, should it ever come. Which it won’t. But which is always latent.”<\/p>\nUnless and until we stop giving barbarism a pass, such insults will act as the parents to further insults, as the Islamists become emboldened by the wet-pant reactions of our erudite class. <\/p>\n
— To paraphrase Jefferson. Who was himself a right-winger who launched attacks on the Barbary pirates, to whom all he had to do to de-escalate their attacks and enslavement of ships was to, you know, redistribute the wealth a bit.<\/p>\n
The racist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
His timing, given the closing down of Jewish shops and attacks on Jews, is impeccable — just what one expects out of the editor of an august magazine purportedly nuanced in its understanding of foreign diplomacy, but in reality just another venue for massaging specific progressive narratives in an effort to will them, through repetition, into “truths.” MRC: Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Thursday, David Rothkopf, CEO and editor<\/p>\n
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