We all know Secretary of State John Kerry’s foreign policies when it comes to France-remember James Taylor and the hug as the apology for not attending the march for solidarity?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt4gSurb2yo

After the apology, the song,(and the hug) earlier this year, John Kerry attempted to contrast the Charlie Hebdo attacks with the terror attacks in Paris this past week stating yesterday that the attacks on Charlie Hebdo back in January were “different”:

“In the last days, obviously, that has been particularly put to the test. There’s something different about what happened from Charlie Hebdo, and I think everybody would feel that. 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, okay, they’re really angry because of this and that.”

Did we hear the word “different”? Were “legitimate” and “rationale” uttered? Yes, I think they were.