"
Barack Obama is a modern man. John Kerry is a
modern man. And the core assumption, in all
seriousness, is that they think we're beyond all
that: we're beyond wars, we're beyond fighting.
There is no conflict in the world that cannot be
solved by sitting down and negotiating because
everybody else is a modern man as well. See,
that's why the modern man doesn't need a gun,
because if the guy comes in with a gun, they can
just sit down and talk about it and they'll reach
some accord. And they really believe that this is
true. Barack Obama and John Kerry showed that
they were quintessential modern men when they
thought well we have the Ayatollah Khamenei, he's
somebody just like us. Well, sure, he shouts death
to America a few times but really he has the same
aspirations for peace, the same desire to join the
harmonious community of nations and so we can
do business. And they did. The biggest obstacle
that the modern man faces, however, is that there
are some people in the world who are not modern
men. Khamenei, of course, is one very much so
and the leader of North Korea, the caliph of the
Islamic State, all of them old–fashioned guys. And
old–fashioned guys, they understand that there is
tribalism, there are ancient hatreds, there is
warfare and there are some things that you just
can't settle by means of talking things out.
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/12/video-and-transcript-robert-spencer-on-modern-mans-fatal-conceit
