Unbelievable: Obama Whitehouse suggest fighting Islamic State with “Jobs Program”?
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 [Muslims] cross 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 groups, whether it’s lack of opportunity for jobs, whether –”
At that point, Harf was interrupted by host Chris Matthews, who pointed out, “There’s always going to be poor people. There’s always going to be poor Muslims.”
Harf continued to argue that the U.S. should work with other countries to “help improve their governance” and “help them build their economies so they can have job opportunities for these people.”
She acknowledged there’s “no easy solution” and said the U.S. would still take out ISIS leaders. But Harf said: “If we can help countries work at the root causes of this — what makes these 17-year-old kids pick up an AK-47 instead of trying to start a business?”
The comments come as the Obama administration takes heat from lawmakers for its approach to the Islamic State, whose self-proclaimed fighters in Libya recently executed 21 Coptic Christians from Egypt.
They feign not to know the muslamics and the fact that the madarsas are the university of terrorism and the mosques are the factories of the terrorism, wherein all the muslamics are satisfactorily employed.
How about we find Marie Harf and her boss a new job. That might help a whole lot.
I’m not sure what’s worse: Marie Harf knowing going along with the taqiyya of Barack Hussein Obama or if she’s truly this clueless!
she is truly & genuinely clueless. There is an astounding dilapidation of US diplomatic and foreign policy expertise. Started with Bush, with his desire to build a model democracy in Iraq.