Turner: Be nice to terrorists

Ted Turner: Give Muslim Extremists What They Want to Stop Terrorism

During an interview aired Friday on CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, when asked by host Deutsch how he would go about fighting terrorism, CNN founder Ted Turner argued that "you don't win people over by bombing them, you win them over by being friends with them," and soon recommended giving Muslim extremists what they want as a solution to terrorism. Turner, who in 2002 claimed that Israelis were guilty of "terrorism" against the Palestinians, on Friday's show advocated "being more even-handed in our dealing with the Palestinians and the Israelis," negotiating peace in the Middle East "so we can stop at some point furnishing military aid to Israel," and "pulling our military forces out of the Middle East." Turner labelled these moves as "things that they've asked of us" and "things that the Muslim extremists and a lot of other Muslims, too, would like to see us do." (Transcript follows)

Turner was also asked by Deutsch about his recent suggestion that "men should be barred from holding public office for a hundred years," prompting Turner to speak approvingly of the possibility that, with women in control, "military budgets all over the place would be slashed maybe to nothing" in favor of more social spending, as he suggested this could be the only way to prevent nuclear war and global warming distasters: "I think if we don't do something like that, we're going to have a nuclear, full-scale nuclear war at some point, or with global climate change, we're going to turn the world into such a hot house it will be unfit for humans to live in. So we need to change the way we're doing things right away and give some new ideas a chance or we're sunk."

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Turner: "Well, I think, I think what we need to do is try and improve the world. The best way to stop terrorism is to give people hope for a better future. People don't blow themselves up if they think things are going to get better." [The Ponderosa: Things would be much better in Iraq and Afghanistan for around 50 million people were these cockroaches exterminated. ]

Turner also soon suggested that instead of bombing, which only "does a lot of damage and makes people angry," that the best way to win people over is "by being friends with them." [The Ponderosa: You wanna slit my throat? C'mon, share my Snickers bar! ]


Turner: "I think the days of bombing to try and achieve any kind of objectives are behind us. All that bombs do is a lot of damage and make people angry, you know, you don't, you don't win people over by bombing them; you win them over by being friends with them." [The Ponderosa: This is a "grown up", folks. ]

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Teddy -- you bomb the ones who have sworn to murder you and your family.

The others you win over by giving them the opportunity for self-governance and self-determination.

We are endeavouring to do both.

Amazing how many daft billionaires are out there.

Turner and Soros must be idiot savants.

Wouldn't it be nice if self-professed "liberals" could work up as much venom for those who would drive car bombs into gay bathhouses and behead abortionists as they have for the president?

Relax. We'll continue to protect you, your protestations notwithstanding.