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America needs to increase foreign aid to Middle Eastern countries to help stem the growth of groups like the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), President Obama said during an interview with Vice News that aired Monday.  "I'm confident that will happen but what I’m worried about and what we’ll have to stay worried about is even if ISIL is defeated, the underlying problem of disaffected Sunnis around the world," Obama said.  ADVERTISEMENT “We can’t keep on thinking of counterterrorism and security as entirely separate from diplomacy, development, education, all these things that are considered soft, but in fact...

What the West really needs to take on the Islamic State is ... a jobs program. That's what a top State Department spokeswoman suggested when asked in a TV interview Monday night about what the U.S.-led coalition is doing to stop the slaughter of civilians by Islamic State militants across the region. "We're killing a lot of them, and we're going to keep killing more of them. ... But we cannot win this war by killing them," department spokeswoman Marie Harf said on MSNBC's "Hardball." "We need ... to go after the root causes that leads people to join these...

That's right. To reiterate, if the quote by Mary Harf, Deputy Spokesperson for the US Department of State, made on MSNBC with Chris Matthews, didn't resonate, I'll repeat it once again. If ISIS Members Had Decent Jobs They Wouldn't Be Beheading Christians. I have to assume whatever comments she makes in her official capacity as Deputy Spokesperson for the US Department of State on a news program would be, I believe, the official policy of the current administration, I think. Marie Elizabeth Harf (born June 15, 1981) is the deputy spokesperson for the US Department of State and a...