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Adam Yoshida: Kerry's Nuanced View on the "Nuisance" of Terror: "Let's read that quote again and consider exactly what Senator Kerry said, 'We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance.' We have to 'get back to the place we were'? What place is that? He says it's, 'where terrorists are not the focus of our lives' which I take to mean the world before September 11th. But let's consider the deeper implication of what he's said and what he means. When he speaks of terrorists once more being a 'nuisance', I take him to be saying that he regards the attacks which came before September 11th (the USS Cole, the attempted bombing of LAX, the Embassy Bombings, the Khobar Towers, the first World Trade Centre bombing, the bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut), attacks which killed hundreds of people, to be nothing more than a 'nuisance'.
All of this demonstrates a fundamental ignorance on the part of Senator Kerry. The only real difference between the first World Trade Centre attack in 1993 and the second in 2001 is that the attackers in
2001 had better organization and planning. Their intent was the same."