"They’re both foreign terrorist organizations designated under United States law, but I’m not going to do any more comparison of them. Obviously, they’re quite different in some ways."
Harf's circumlocutions remind me of the painfully awful book launch speech scene from Bridget Jones's Diary (2001).
Well, following the execution by Hamas on Friday of 18 alleged "collaborators," even the Palestian Authority president's secretary-general, Tayeb Abdel Rahim, is claiming that these executions are akin to those being perpertrated by the Islamic State.
Perhaps someone would care to ask Harf again for her "expert" opinion.
