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State Dept. Spox on ISIS: “We CANNOT win this war by killing them” (Bimbo Alert)
RightScoop ^ | Feb 16, 2015 | By The Right Scoop

Posted on 02/16/2015 8:11:38 PM PST by Islander7

State Department Spokesperson Marie Harf told Chris Matthews tonight that we cannot win this war with ISIS by killing them. She said we have to get to the root cause of why people are attracted to Jihad — you know like poverty, jobs, etc…

“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. We need in the medium to longer term to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups, whether it’s lack of opportunity for jobs…”

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To: Islander7

It’s nice to know that this Idiot is probably making more money than I ever made in my entire life, and I’m a Retired Vice President who worked for a Fortune 500 Company.

Then again, so does Obama.


61 posted on 02/16/2015 9:03:42 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (If you think the Mulatto Marxist is bad, just wait until the Menopausal Marxist shows up.)
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To: Islander7

“She said we have to get to the root cause of why people are attracted to Jihad — you know like poverty, jobs, etc… “

If poverty and jobs are the cause of jihad, then poor Christians, poor Jews, poor Buddhists, poor atheists, poor Taoists, etc, would all be expected to engage in “holy war”. Instead, it’s only the Muslims. How hard is it to see the common denominator?!?


62 posted on 02/16/2015 9:11:28 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Islander7
We cannot kill our way out of this war. We need in the medium to longer term to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups,

....and that would be.......inquiring minds seek to know.....maybe a U-tube video.....a book....

Yeah....a book...what book do they all read......?

63 posted on 02/16/2015 9:11:39 PM PST by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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To: Islander7

Duh!


64 posted on 02/16/2015 9:12:56 PM PST by QBFimi (/...o.o/.o...ooo/...o.o...o/ooo/...o.o/.o/ooo.//o..o./. o.)
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To: Norseman

These people want to be martyrs. Seems only courteous to oblige them.


65 posted on 02/16/2015 9:14:17 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Islander7
State Dept. Spox on ISIS: “We CANNOT win this war by killing them” (Bimbo Alert)

Name one war in recorded history that was won any other way, moron!

66 posted on 02/16/2015 9:15:11 PM PST by publius911 (Formerly Publius6961)
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To: Boogieman

It’s really hard to see when their heads are planted firmly in the riverbottom of de Nile.


67 posted on 02/16/2015 9:15:56 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Louis Foxwell

I sympathize with that sentiment, but you can’t send missionaries into a warzone. We would need to utterly defeat them first, destroy their will to fight, and then occupy them to protect the missionaries until we could be sure that the change would stick.

It’s not even like we are talking about “denazification”, since the Germans had only been living under that ideology for less than a generation, and not all of them had ever supported it. These guys have been living under this ideology for centuries, and it dominates their whole cultural identity.


68 posted on 02/16/2015 9:17:48 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Islander7

Maybe we should pummel the state department with Clauswitz and Sun Tsu, some other material they’ve never read...


69 posted on 02/16/2015 9:19:03 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Islander7

John Kerry said that terrorism is caused by global warming.


70 posted on 02/16/2015 9:23:27 PM PST by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - a Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: Islander7

ISIS does not scare me...not near as much as democrats in power.


71 posted on 02/16/2015 9:25:39 PM PST by Gator113 (Cruz, Lee, and Sessions speak for me.... most anyone else is just noise.)
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To: Islander7
Cowardice. The true face of the left and their ultimate source of appeasement. They are terrified of Islam and Islamic Jihadi’s and will do anything to avoid violence to attempt to placate those who wish to kill anyone who stand in their way.

It really boils down to cowardice, IMO.

It's not difficult to understand, and is the simplest explanation to the actions of the apologist's and appeasers, IMO.

72 posted on 02/16/2015 9:26:09 PM PST by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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To: Islander7

Ask her if she’d like to lead a good will mission to ISIS.


73 posted on 02/16/2015 9:30:26 PM PST by matt1234 (2015-2016 America's enemies sense obama's weakness and strike)
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To: MtnClimber

By definition, how can the left choose good without abandoning itself? The ideas of the left are anti-God.


74 posted on 02/16/2015 9:33:41 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Mears

How many non-buffoons has the Obama Admin hired/appointed?


75 posted on 02/16/2015 9:34:52 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Islander7

This response tells me that the obama regime wants to send them taxpayer money because of poverty and lack of jobs.

They think that’s the problem.

These people are living in a fantasy land


76 posted on 02/16/2015 9:41:20 PM PST by barmag25 (Cruz 2016)
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To: Islander7
We cannot kill our way out of this war.

And we cannot "drill our way to energy independence".

Oh, yeah?

How about... Drill, baby, drill! & Kill, baby, kill!

Works for me.

77 posted on 02/16/2015 9:44:44 PM PST by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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To: Islander7

Is this satire? This has got to be satire. Right?

Although I know Harf is an idiot, she cannot actually really be this stupid. But working for the most vapid, feckless, ignorant and insane administration in history, I guess she really is.

Just damn.


78 posted on 02/16/2015 9:51:41 PM PST by Bullish (Not even a smidgeon of integrity or sanity in this whitehouse.)
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To: arthurus

Nope. Too many would realize everything they believed was wrong. Allah would not allow infidels to obliterate the muslims’ most holiest site on earth. They believe this is impossible and allah would never allow it.


79 posted on 02/16/2015 9:56:47 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Islander7

80 posted on 02/16/2015 9:58:29 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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