Secretary of State John Kerry's distinction Tuesday between last week's Paris attacks and the assault on the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo left syndicated columnist David Limbaugh "aghast" in a
Newsmax TV interview — and it "highlights exactly how clueless these guys are, how warped their world view is," he said.
Besides Kerry, Limbaugh was referring to President Barack Obama and Kerry's predecessor, Hillary Clinton, he told "The Steve Malzberg Show."
"The terrorists, the Islamists, hate us because we are not Islamists and we will not submit — so they have to kill us," he said. "That's all there is to it. That is their cause. They don't need an external cause. They don't need for us to make them mad.
"They are eternally, perpetually mad at us because we are not acquiescing to their global caliphate — and then fighting back is even worse.
"Of course, Obama isn't fighting back, so they're probably not real, real mad at him. They're still probably mad at George Bush," he said.
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Kerry came under heavy fire Tuesday after suggesting that the Paris attacks by the Islamic State lacked the "rationale" of the
Charlie Hebdo assault in January by al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen.
"There’s something different about what happened from Charlie Hebdo, and I think everybody would feel that," Kerry said in Paris.
"There was a sort of particularized focus and perhaps even a legitimacy in terms of — not a legitimacy, but a rationale that you could attach yourself to somehow and say, 'OK, they’re really angry because of this and that.'"
Limbaugh is the author of the new book,
"The Emmaus Code: Finding Jesus in the Old Testament."
"The suggestion that there is some legitimacy to any of their actions is so outrageous it's to be unspeakable," he told Malzberg. "It is so morally inverted that it's amazing we've elected these hooligans twice."
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