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?

It is just stupid. There are different types of Islamic terrorism, but ISIS is something new...or old that we haven't seen in a long time.

To the Palestinian movement, I do think living conditions plays a big part for lots of those people. Some of them literally have nothing to lose, and that drives terrorism. There is also a strong nationalistic component to that sort of terrorism and some other Islamic terrorist movements.

But, ISIS is straight up religious in nature and wants to set up the caliphate. Recruits are flocking to it from western countries where they are stinking rich compared to most people in the area ISIS controls. Economics has almost nothing to do with this movement and it is embarrassing to see the State Department so clueless.

Mindboggling.

Well tell that load of nonsense - I seem to recall that peace was achieved with both the Empire of Japan and NAZI Germany by killing them in mass to the point they didn't have any soldiers left, unless you count 12 year olds! And we sank there ships, shot there airplanes out of the sky, bombed their factories and then their cities, destroyed dams, and put enough boots on the ground to force a surrender and unconditional one! All we have to do is declare War, no pussy footing around, no ROE's no catch and release of the enemy- I would prefer to just shoot them, but hey that just me! Find Fix and destroy! Use my spies and go after the financiers of this crap, and well they get to die! Attack their bank accounts if little johnny can empty out your checking account with some stuff he bought at radio shack, then NSA should be able to with out much effort- deprive them of money, and deprive them of breathing, guess what would happen we would win the war, other wise they will win! War is not about nation building, or playing by rules other than the ones lawful combatants agree too, its about killing and breaking things you have to be ruthless in the pursuit of victory- other wise its nothing but an expensive circle jerk!

This just proves once again why this world is doomed. I'm no doomsday prophet, but I cannot help but think the Good Lord is getting real close to putting the book of Revelations into effect. I've heard ISIS referred to as "animals". That is such an injustice to animals. Animals have souls, these pieces of garbage do not. I've often heard God does not make "trash" in regards to humans. In this case, I'm afraid he did. They are burning people alive and chopping heads off and we are suppose to defeat them by giving them JOBS? As the line in one of my favorite Black Sabbath songs goes, "No mercy from hearts made of stone." God help us...

Harf just made me barf!

What is she 25 years old??!

WTF does she know? How did she get this job??! Was she ISIS and now has a job in the State Dept?

CAN THIS NATION REALLY SURVIVE ANOTHER TWO YEARS OF THIS INSANITY?!

I was wanting a Kimber Raptor, but now I'm looking for the Rapture!

They've brought it on themselves many times over via encouragement from their islamic "brothers" in the surrounding countries who then disown.

It is hard to believe just how far this administration can have its head up it ass.

Look on the bright side--two more years of this and the Dems are going to be looking like absolute idiots to everyone.

Everybody knows the administration IS THE JV TEAM!

"They" may have but a fifteen year old Palestinian has done nothing more to deserve whatever his lot is in life than a fifteen year old American has.

We need to give this filth the opportunity to die.

This Administration isn't even on par with the 6th grade "C" Team. No offense to you "C" Teamers out there.

Alan

This is getting even better. Now the air headed blond is saying that we're all too dumb to understand. She didn't use the word dumb, she said we're 'not nuanced enough', but there's no doubt what she meant. Oh, the elite are SO much smarter than the rest of us.
Keep digging your hole, sweet thing. The deeper you dig, the deeper you can bury yourself.

NUANCED

Wonder if they will sing a different tune if ISIS manages to infiltrate and attack the White House?

Just another stupid liberal C [bleep]. T