Posted on 02/17/2015 7:10:59 AM PST by lowbridge
The U.S. can’t defeat the Islamic State by “killing them,” State Department Spokesperson Marie Harf told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on Monday night.
“We’re killing a lot of them, and we’re going to keep killing more of them. So are the Egyptians, so are the Jordanians. They’re 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 isn’t 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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Global Warming.
America is toast.
I heard this on FOX this morning amid exploding heads including my own. Disconnect?
No doubt Obama feels he could defeat ISIS by getting down on his knees and giving them all bl*w j*bs.
That seems to have been the general trend for the past six years.
Shouldn’t this have a Harf Alert?
“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.”
They need more liberal dogma.
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Midnight basketball.
Islam is the root cause.
Give them Obamacare.
This is the woman who I always expect to see blow a big bubble with her pink bubble gum. She’s such a bopper.
So she has pretty much just stated that islam (as taught in the quran) must be removed from the face of the earth.
Both are necessary - kill the current crop and purge the world of the teachings of mohammed. Good start.
These people make stupid seem smart. I say it's time to see if Tactical nukes actually work.
We can only defeat them by surrendering! Everybody knows that!
I disagree. His opinion of himself is so high that he thinks they should get down on their knees, be grateful for the opportunity, and pleasure him, all in the service of the Greater Caliphate.
I want to give alllllla eternity sortin’ ‘em out.
Why all this fuss over the JV?
Give em iphones, money, white chicks, etc.
They need to be stopped...and killing is the only way.
We can help them build their economies so they can have job opportunities for these people.
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In other words - Obama wants to buy them off.
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