Posted on 02/17/2015 6:46:46 PM PST by raybbr
Wolf Blitzer invited Marie Harf on CNN’s Situation Room this afternoon. Blitzer sought her out to expand on her remarks on the administration’s approach to dealing with the Islamic State terrorists. Harf thinks that we must attack old-fashioned “root causes” of the material kind. Harf is promoting Great Society liberalism as the answer to “violent extremism.”
Great Society liberalism couldn’t even cut it in the United States with more limited (if still ambitious) goals. Touting the rollout of Great Society liberalism worldwide as the answer to religious fanaticism betrays a mind-boggling stupidity.
Jobs programs don’t quite cut it when you’re in the 72 virgins business. This is where the administration’s comprehensive denial of the motive forces driving the terrorists is key. They aren’t looking for work. They aren’t looking to get rich. They aren’t looking for daycare programs. They’ve got something else on their mind, something else that is taboo to speak of in the higher reaches of the Obama administration.
“I’m not the first person to say something like this,” Harf said this afternoon. “Military commanders that we’ve had throughout many years here fighting this war on terrorism have said the exact same thing, that in the short term when there’s a threat like ISIL. We’ll take direct military action against these terrorists. We have done that. We are doing that in Iraq and Syria. But longer term, we have to look at how we combat the conditions that can lead people to turn to extremism.”
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I worked in embassies and consulates for 22 years, 1975-1997. I worked with a lot of Foreign Service Officers who were good patriotic Americans, some were even veterans. On the whole, however, they were a bunch of moonbats. I occasionally see them on Facebook and they slobber over the Obamas. I have to hold my tongue.
For someone with such an unnuanced nick, you seem more intelligent than 100% of the gov,t....;-)
When she says it’s because of jobs, she’s defending their actions.
Obama and his administration are “muslim extremist sympathizers” at the very least.
Good post.
No she is a bubble headed bleached blond with a gleam in her eye POS leftist commie pinko f stick
"Would you like to supersize that nuance?"
“too nuanced” in her world means “you’re too stupid to understand this”
“But longer term, we have to look at how we combat the conditions that can lead people to turn to extremism.”
Yes, and lets start here in the US, where politicians use class warfare and false narratives to stir unrest and solicit votes.
She should have thrown in midnight basketball, free cell phones, EbT cards, welfare and mj for their depression.
In Indian the joke is: What’s the difference between a Cadillac and a girl from I.U.?
Not everyone has been in a Cadillac.
Look at the bright side, WE’RE PAYING HER SALARY AND HER “SMART” PHONE BILL. Anybody still confused as to why TEA Party people are so pissed off?
Why would he? It’s all Al-Taqiyaa with him, 24/7, 365.
Nuances are subtle. This Obama flack’s idiocy is bold and obvious...
Marie Harf promoting the Bush Doctrine
How ironic
And how utterly intellectually bankrupt
Have a good friend who was 32 CIA in SA . He ended up in top 5 of NSA.
I think that the glasses make her look smart.
Maybe midnight head soccer?
#4 very funny : )
IF what Marie Harf is saying is true and correct, how come we do not see a rise of radical terrorism in more poor 3rd world counties and in 3rd world counties where there are other religions ? Marie Harf needs to go on FOX NEWS and asked their very question.
Poorpobia ? Being poor does not make a terrorist, is that what Marie is advocating here ? That the poor are terrorist now ?
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