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State Department Representative Marie Harf told Chris Matthews that the answer to fighting ISIS is not killing them, but helping them to have more job opportunities. Yeah, that’ll work. It has nothing to do with their insane ‘religion of peace’.

MATTHEWS: How do we stop this? I don’t see it. I see the Shia militias coming out of Baghdad who are all Shia. The Sunnis hate them. The Sunnis are loyal to ISIS rather than going in with the Shia. You’ve got the Kurds, the Jordanian air force and now the Egyptian air force. But i don’t see any — If i were ISIS, I wouldn’t be afraid right now. I can figure there is no existential threat to these people. They can keep finding places where they can hold executions and putting the camera work together, getting their props ready and killing people for show. And nothing we do right now seems to be directed at stopping this.

HARF: Well, I think there’s a few stages here. Right now what we’re doing is trying to take their leaders and their fighters off the battlefield in Iraq and Syria. That’s really where they flourish.

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…

everyone knows the definition of insanity, right?

Think of what it means when Chris Matthews sounds like the sane one in a discussion with a gov't spokesperson.

2 more years...

Job opportunities yeah that'll work..

It seems to me that back in the days of attrition warfare (kill them all, let god sort them out), victories were faster, and final.

Modern warfare (you don't have to kill your enemy, you just have to destroy his will to fight), I don't know. I don't see it working to well.

Well it has worked sooooo well for the blacks here that they figured they'd try it out over there as well.

Nothing will stop the Jihad until Christians, Jews, and other members of the free world go 100% Old Testament on these bastards.

I agree, give'm jobs zipping the body bags of their dead brethren, that'll keep them busy for awhile.

pretty well sums up the reality of it all. The bright side is that we only will have to kill 90% of the muslims. After that, the immams might forgo jihad as an instrument of policy.

Then that stupid biotch should immediately go over there and open a career office...

Best thing about that is her head would soon be rolling around on the damn beach..

Gawd - these gov't-types are stupid-azzed flaming do-gooder libbies that haven't the sense of a fire ant..

Why don't we solve their jobless rate the way our government does? Simply change the definition of 'unemployed'. If they adopt our MSM calculator it will show their jobless rate plummet, call it an extended recovery, and obviously world peace will follow.

Didn't Obama say that he is like a big city mayor fighting street crime?
Economic opportunities and midnight basketball should do the trick.

Ernie

IMO the only way to defeat ISIS is to take control of ALL of the territory they have captured and declared as a caliphate. No caliphate means no ISIS, and it will require a whole lot killing take back the territory they now control.

OK. I see now. Another way to rob us of precious treasure and send our money to the ME under the premise of helping combat jihad through camel groom and wash stations and other area specific job opportunities.

We need to Impeach this traitor, now!

We should consider giving them free community college, too.

You are so right! Liberalism is a cancer to America.

Roman. Go Roman on them. They knew how to deal with this kinad crap.

How bout a drive through suicide bomb store? Lot's of opportunity and a high rate of turnover. No over head, at least not after the first detonator test.

The worst part about this whole thing is that ISIS is now absolutely sure that our country is run by idiots, IF they had any doubts before.

Alan

The gross stupidity of people that have attained relatively influential positions has always been hard for me to understand.

Where do these flipping people come from?