20 Mar 2015: 137 dead, 345 wounded in Yemen mosque bombings
18 Mar 2015: 23 dead in Libyan Museum terror attack
15 Mar 2015: Suicide bomber attacks church in Pakistan killing 14, wounding 70
7 Mar 2015: Two suicide bombers in Nigeria kill 58, wound 139
24 Feb 2015: John Kerry: “Our citizens, our world today is actually, despite ISIL, despite the visible killings that you see and how horrific they are, we are actually living in a period of less daily threat to Americans and to people in the world than normally, less deaths, less violent deaths today than through the last century.”
13 Feb 2015: Terrorists in Pakistan kill 20, wound 60 in Shiite Mosque attack
30 Jan 2015: Suicide bomber kills 55, injures 59 in Shiite mosque
13 Jan 2015: A passenger bus in the Ukraine was hit by a rocket killing 12, wounding 18
8 Jan 2015: Terrorist attack in Nigeria leaves at least 200 dead, over 2000 missing
7 Jan 2015: Terrorist attacks in Paris leave 17 dead, 22 wounded
7 Jan 2015: Yemen Police Academy terrorist attack kills 37, wounds 66
2 Jan 2015: Terrorists in Cameroon attack bus, kill 15, wound 10
1 Jan 2015: Suicide Bomber kills 26, wounds 48 in student cultural center bombing
Looking at this list of terrorist attacks since January 1st (and this is just attacks with double digit fatalities), it’s amazing that John Kerry would state that the people of the world are safer than any other time through the last century.
This kind of contradicts the State Departments own data on Terrorist attacks since attacks increased from 11,098 in 2012 to 17,891 in 2013, the last year for which complete data is available.
Strangely enough, the day after Kerry made his statement to Congress, James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence also stated to Congress “When the final accounting is done, 2014 will be the most lethal year in global terrorism in the 45 years such data has been compiled.”
How can some people just ignore the facts because they don’t support their narrative?
Got to be another case of “I think, therefore it is”.
Update: Yemen is in the news most every day as the site of deadly terror attacks, yet several months ago, President Obama called it an example of our success in the mid-East. Since he made that statement, the government of Yemen has collapsed, the country is in chaos and just today it was announced that the last US Government personnel have left Yemen as it was no longer safe nor did we have the ability to influence events there.
It only took Yemen six months to go from an example of success to complete disaster.
If this is Obama’s idea of success, we can only hope it doesn’t come to the United States.