"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 lead people to join these groups, whether it’s lack of opportunity for jobs...”
Posted on 11/14/2017 5:56:38 AM PST by Olog-hai
President Emmanuel Macron says the French state fueled homegrown extremism by abandoning its poorest neighborhoods, and is promising tough and “sometimes authoritarian” new measures to combat the problem.
The pledge is part of a multibillion-euro plan that Macron is laying out Tuesday focusing on suburban housing projects plagued by crime and joblessness.
Macron was unusually harsh in his criticism of previous governments, saying radicalization took root because the state abdicated its responsibility in impoverished public housing, and extremist preachers filled the void. …
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bttt
Focus on the symptom, not the cause.
But they had a socialist running that country for all of those years, something seems amiss here, eh?
I do not remember extremism being a problem during the Great Depression.
Il n’y avait pas de musulmans.
So ...
Islamic Jihad exists because France doesn’t have enough Socialism?
Really?
Answer to all socialist caused problems: MORE SOCIALISM!
Is Obama his adviser ?
"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 lead people to join these groups, whether it’s lack of opportunity for jobs...”
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