Posted on 02/17/2015 7:10:59 AM PST by lowbridge
The U.S. cant defeat the Islamic State by killing them, State Department Spokesperson Marie Harf told MSNBCs Chris Matthews on Monday night.
Were killing a lot of them, and were going to keep killing more of them. So are the Egyptians, so are the Jordanians. Theyre in this fight with us. But we cannot win this war by killing them. We cannot kill our way out of this war, Harf said.
Instead, she said the U.S. needs to focus on the medium to longer term to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups, such as lack of opportunity for jobs.
Matthews pushed back slightly, telling his guest that the United States isnt going to be able to fix those kinds of societal problems in fifty lifetimes.
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We can help them build their economies so they can have job opportunities for these people.
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I CANNOT believe the GOP is so incompetent as to let these people coast to two victories. Especially 2012 with more on the record.
This is possibly the most idiotic and most ignorant worldview in the history of western culture. It dwarfs the ‘peace in our time’ culture of Europe pre-WWII.
Do they honestly think this is an unemployment issue????? It's not; it's a hatred issue. And good jobs is not going to make that go away.
There isn't one, NOT ONE, muslim non-oil based economy that is successful.
Islam isn't conducive to success.
I’m beginning to think the only way to defeat ISIS is to imprison every liberal in government; in all Western governments. That includes even the dog catchers.
All other liberal would have their freedom of speech suspended as not being “PC”.
Absolutely. The undocumented Tyrant is disappointed
that ISIL is just not as weak and docile
and blindly a$$licking as the EXEMPT US Congress.
As LTC Ralph Peters said a couple of weeks ago, the only way to win this war is to kill ALL the jihadis.
Islamists don’t really care about this life. Liberals don’t get it.
...and earned an MA in Foreign Affairs from University of Virginia.[2] --Wikipedia
There's a column up by Dennis Prager this morning that the more stupid the statement, the greater the education.
Running close to 100% correct so far.
I listen to trucker’s radio in the AM on my way to work. They were having a field day with this one ... lots of laughs.
Even Chris Matthews wasn’t bamboozled.
“medium to longer term to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups, such as lack of opportunity for jobs.
And yet, when you look at how many suicide bombers were professionals, and look at how wealthy bin Laden was, and the fact that the Marathon Bombers were quite comfortable with their welfare checks plus drug profits, you gotta wonder if the Marxist approach to Islamic militancy is correct, that it’s caused by economic forces wielded by the wealthy and bourgeois against the powerless proletariat.
A Marxist apparently has trouble accepting even the possibility that religion and faith and culture might have a little to do with the current conflict, that strict obedience to commandments set in a book might influence people’s motives to act.
The terrorists are the symptom of the disorder. With deal with that by killing them.
The disorder is an unreformed Islam. The muslim religious leaders must reform their religion to stop the massacres that are surely coming to their people.
She’s right.
It was the same with the NAZIS and Japanese in World War II. IF we had created jobs for them they would have laid down their weapons and clerked at Walmart.
Those liberals... no one’s smarter than them....
Nation-building was a pipe-dream, but reforming dysfunctional societies is in unicorn-land. It is just an excuse to use US taxpaper money/debt to fund O Muslim friends.
It was so stupid even Chris Matthews was pulling back....
....to use US taxpaper money/debt to fund O’s Muslim friends.
I thought I had seen jaw dropping stupidity before, but this one beats all.
I agree with her that we can’t win by killing them.
Besides, they are slaughtering each other pretty efficiently, so why interfere?
However, it is none of our concern whether or not they have jobs. And it is none of our business if Muslims are slaughtering other Muslims.
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