Tuesday, February 17, 2015

State Dept’s Marie Harf: Go After ‘Root Cause’ of ISIS 'Like Lack Of Jobs'


Lots of people are unemployed. It doesn't make them want to cut off infidels heads.

Via Right Scoop:

MATTHEWS: Are we killing enough of them?
HARF: 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, whether —

MATTHEWS: We’re not going to be able to stop that in our lifetime or fifty lifetimes. There’s always going to be poor people. There’s always going to be poor muslims, and as long as there are poor Muslims, the trumpet’s blowing and they’ll join. We can’t stop that, can we?
HARF: We can work with countries around the world to help improve their governance. We can help them build their economies so they can have job opportunities for these people…

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Let's put ISIS on welfare and achieve world peace!

See “Root of Evil: Let’s Put ISIS on Welfare” at http://wp.me/p4scHf-7s.

Bluegrass Pundit said...

You have uncovered Obama's secret plan to defeat ISIS.