State Department spokeswoman floats jobs as answer to ISIS

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fox News:

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 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.

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Even Chris Matthews wasn't buying this one...yeesh.

 

[Cyber_Liberty]

Good grief, is she really that stupid? ISIS is on a rampage because they don't have jobs?? This is taking stoopid to a whole new level.

[clearvision]

Well let me tell you, at least this Administration knows something about creating jobs.

[SrWoodchuck]

Good grief, is she really that stupid? ISIS is on a rampage because they don't have jobs?? This is taking stoopid to a whole new level.

 

@Cyber_Liberty

 

This is stupid:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXYL5iGG5QM&feature=player_embedded

 

Via WeaselZippers

[Valin]

Good grief, is she really that stupid? ISIS is on a rampage because they don't have jobs?? This is taking stoopid to a whole new level.

 

 

If I may once again quote from Babylon 5 (The Greatest TV Show Ever )

 

Boggs: "They Can't Be That Stupid Can They!" Sniper" "Always Bet On Stupidity."

[Valin]

Lucy and Ethel Take Foggy Bottom
State’s hapless PR duo aren’t up to the task of putting a serious face on an unserious policy.
Ian Tuttle
Feb. 17 2015

Never in the history of public relations have an institution and its representatives been so mismatched as at the current U.S. Department of State, where, tasked with articulating America’s position toward Middle East terror outfits, Russian aggression, and the world’s other vicissitudes, are Jen Psaki and Marie Harf, currently in the midst of an interminable Lucy-and-Ethel routine as Foggy Bottom’s spokesperson and deputy spokesperson, respectively. In an administration that has always given the distinct impression of being directed by second-year poli-sci majors from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Psaki and Harf are the only two under the impression that Legally Blonde was a documentary — one that they are apparently trying to re-create, with little success, at Foggy Bottom.

 

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Last September Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly remarked, in a segment on his show, that “that woman [Psaki] looks way out of her depth over there — just the way she delivers, it just doesn’t look like she has the gravitas for that job” — a comment that earned him a Twitter rebuke from Harf, who later called O’Reilly’s language “sexist, [and] personally offensive.” Setting aside the obvious facts that 1) the official spokespersons of a government agency have no business singling out for criticism a media personality, and 2) those same spokespersons probably have more productive ways to spend their time, Psaki and Harf have not come in for criticism because of their “gender identity,” but because of their Delta Nu approach to diplomatic relations, as if Putin is carefully watching their Pinterest accounts and Islamic State terrorists are following them on Twitter. People in Foggy Bottom’s communications shop really seem to think that those enslaved Iraqi Christians are super-interested in Jen Psaki’s Instagram.

 

But a crew is only as good as its captain, and the captain for the last six years has been leading not “from behind,” but from a chaise lounge on the lido deck. If Psaki and Harf are often chuckleheaded cheerleaders, it’s in large part because Barack Obama has confused being commander-in-chief with being quarterback. Why wield the sword against Islamist lunatics when you can wield a selfie stick? Don’t these people know who they’re dealing with? This is the preezy of the United Steezy! He’s been on BuzzFeed!

 

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[Valin]

‘Jobs for ISIS’ Isn’t Quite as Stupid as You Think
For once, Marie Harf makes some sense.
Tom Rogan

February 18, 2015

 

(Snip)

 

Not so fast. Yes, the Obama administration has made foreign-policy ineptitude its doctrine – from Ukraine to the Middle East. But Harf has something of a point: Ideology is not the only reason that ISIS has won a global following. Consider whom ISIS is targeting in its propaganda efforts: socially disaffected young men from across the world. It tempts them with visions of unrestrained excitement tied to an ordained purpose. This strategy — I’ve described it as Grand Theft Auto in the flesh — is at the core of why so many thousands now march under the ISIS banner. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s global jihad provides ISIS fighters with inspiring theology, but broader social concerns make many young men open to this theology in the first place.

 

These social concerns are primarily of two sorts. First, there are those (predominantly in North Africa and the Middle East) who are angry at the endemic corruption and the lack of social mobility in their country; They see ISIS as a path to glory. Then there are those in the West who, imprisoned in poverty and judged for their “otherness,” are wooed by the malevolent charisma of Wahhabi and Salafi clerics. Consider what’s happening in Britain, France, and much of mainland Europe. The social foundations for Salafi-radicalism are clear. Conversely, America’s inclusive national identity means that comparatively few Americans have joined ISIS.

 

But this isn’t solely about sociology. It’s also about history. Recent history proves that countering Salafi-jihadism takes more than military force. After all, just consider how the U.S. defeated ISIS’s progenitor, al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). That victory wasn’t achieved by force of arms alone. Instead, it was enabled by a decisive military campaign — against AQI leaders and senior non-commissioned officers — joined with a broader political, economic, and social campaign. By offering low-level AQI fighters (and also some higher-ups) an attractive employment alternative, the U.S. gutted AQI of its managers and much of its personnel. With this approach, AQI’s bloody antics slowly lost their mystique. Eventually, devoid of leadership and social credibility, AQI was unveiled as a fanatical band of crazed murderers. It collapsed under the weight of its own brutality.

 

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[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fox News:

State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf, after coming under fire for suggesting a way to fight the Islamic State and all terrorism is by creating jobs, has an answer for her critics: Her argument is just "too nuanced" for them to understand.

 

Harf, in TV interviews Tuesday night, stood by her original remarks and said she was speaking about a comprehensive approach to combating "extremism."

 

Harf said that means airstrikes in the short-term, and going after "root causes" like poor economic conditions in the long-term.

 

"Longer term, we cannot kill every terrorist around the world, nor should we try," Harf said on CNN. "How do you get at the root causes of this? Look, it might be too nuanced an argument for some, like I've seen over the past 24 hours some of the commentary out there, but it's really the smart way that Democrats, Republicans, military commanders, our partners in the Arab world think we need to combat this."

 

Harf went on to say the approach doesn't fit "into a sound bite," when asked to respond to the intense criticism, on social media and elsewhere, of her original remarks.

 

On Tuesday, Rob O'Neill, former Navy SEAL Team 6 member, told Fox News a "military strategy" is what's needed to fight ISIS.

 

"They get paid to cut off heads -- to crucify children, to sell slaves and to cut off heads and I don't think that a change in career path is what's going to stop them," he said.

 

O'Neill, who claims to have fired the shot that killed Usama bin Laden, warned that the problem is spreading.

 

"We can't let it happen," he said. "It'll go to Saudi Arabia, it'll hit Jordan."

 

Harf first pointed to jobs as a counter-ISIS strategy during an interview Monday night on MSNBC -- after ISIS-aligned militants slaughtered 21 Coptic Christians in Libya.

 

"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," 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 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?"

 

Harf stood by the remarks Tuesday night on CNN, and on MSNBC. CNN host Wolf Blitzer challenged her statements, asking if she thinks these young men might not turn to terror if they just had a job.

 

Harf called that a "gross oversimplification."

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She's "enlightened," so shut up!

[Valin]

 

Good grief, is she really that stupid? ISIS is on a rampage because they don't have jobs?? This is taking stoopid to a whole new level.

 

 

If I may once again quote from Babylon 5 (The Greatest TV Show Ever )

 

Boggs: "They Can't Be That Stupid Can They!" Sniper" "Always Bet On Stupidity."

 

 

 

She's Doubling Down On Stupid

 

More Marie Harf: I notice people don’t talk much about Joseph Kony’s Christian terror group anymore

Allahpundit

2:01 pm on February 18, 2015

 

Via the Free Beacon, she’s having a big week.

 

I don’t know where to begin. For starters, I guess, the only reason most people ever talked about Kony was because he became a hashtag fad on Twitter for 10 minutes in early 2012. Remember KONY2012? It was a lot like BringBackOurGirls, which went so viral that it made it all the way to the First Lady’s office. Hashtag activism is the laziest, most disposable form of activism there is, but it’s a smash hit on social media precisely because it makes moral posturing easy. Almost a year after BringBackOurGirls went viral, the girls still haven’t been brought back and Boko Haram is killing Nigerians by the thousands. And yet you don’t hear people talking much about that either. That’s the nature of hashtag activism, as ephemeral as a fart. If Harf has a problem with it, maybe she shouldn’t participate in it.

 

 

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She's giving stupid people a bad name.

[Cyber_Liberty]

She's pretty. There have been few pretty girls I've had to tell, "Please don't speak." She's one of them. At least she isn't really ugly with a bad boob job, like Psaki. Damn, I hate to think of all the chewed off arms left behind with that one.

[nickydog]

Just got an email from Mr.n. -- Jen Psake is moving to the White House to become communications director.

[clearvision]

Just got an email from Mr.n. -- Jen Psake is moving to the White House to become communications director.

Isn't that special.

[SrWoodchuck]

 

Via MyEmail

[SrWoodchuck]

Muslim Job Opportunities in the Sciences?

 

 

Via TheBookOfFaces

[SrWoodchuck]

Take This Hijab And Shove It

 

 

StiltonJarlsberg via TheoSpark

[nickydog]

Take This Hijab And Shove It

 

 

StiltonJarlsberg via TheoSpark

 

[Draggingtree]

Stand in Line: The Mexicans got here first, and they're cheaper

 

Imam Obama pulling Brotherhoods’ leg with jihadist job offers

 

By Judi McLeod February 21, 2015

 

Forget City Hall, you cannot fight God and win.

 

You cannot possibly fight the Creator and win because He, who made you in the first place, knows you inside out, and knows all too well the exact location of your Achilles Heel. Everyone, including even the most pompous of politicians, has an Achilles Heel.

 

The truth is that no imam, no matter how persuasive, has ever been able to lead millions of Christians away from the Source of their belief.

 

Imam Obama has embarked upon a mission impossible as Islam’s loudest western cheerleader, trying to convince the world that Islamist terrorists would come in off their killing fields if only they had a job

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/69906