Lack of Jobs the Reason ISIS Beheads Folks

War strategist and State Department spokes-cretin Marie Harf has a way to defeat the Islamic State jihadis claiming, "We cannot kill our way out of this war," we need to give Islamic State jihadis a shot at a good job.

Seriously, she said that on MSNBC to Chris "Tingles" Matthews, the guy who goes gaga over Obama, and even he found it difficult to digest. But the truth is, both sides  of the aisle have tried to propagate the bull crap that poverty causes people to become terrorists and paying off Islamic countries will rid the world of terrorism and the radical religious belief that Islam has held dear for 1400 years.

Like it did with the 911 hijackers? Like bin Laden, the hijackers all came from wealthy families and had better educations than most of their countrymen. It wasn't money or jobs.

We tried pumping money into Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, and see how well that turned out for us. It's about the religion, stupid. These "folks" are fighting for Allah, for their religious beliefs, and not because they want a job parking cars instead of blowing them up.

What other way is there to win a war than to "kill our way out of it?" We did it in WW2 when the Japanese realized our A-Bombs would kill them all. In fact, the A-Bomb saved more lives than it killed because it ended a prolonged and bloody war.

Jihadists aren't saying to themselves, "Gee, if only I had a job, I wouldn't be hacking this Christian's head  off and I could go to Disneyland with my wives and our fifteen children."

It's insulting to anyone who has even a small inkling of what motivates the Islamic State. Marie Harf, like Jonathan Gruber, thinks the American voters are stupid. They happen to be talking about their own party because conservatives haven't bought into their propaganda since Day 1.

Matthews told Harf (rhymes with barf) "if I were ISIS, I wouldn't be afraid right now--nothing we do right now seems to be directed at stopping this," to which the woman who gives blonds a bad name responded: "I think there are a few stages here. Right now what we're doing is trying to take their leaders and their fighters and their fighters off the battlefield in Iraq and in Syria, that's really where they flourish. 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 longer term, medium and longer term, to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups, whether it's lack of opportunity for jobs . . . "

ISIS Job Lines

Even Chrissy knew she was trying to blow smoke up his nether regions. He cut her off and said, "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, they'll join. We can't stop that, can we?"

Harf's response was sadly laughable. "We can work with countries around the world to help improve their governance, we can hep them build their economies, so they can have job opportunities for these people. You're right, there is no easy solution in the long-term to preventing and combating violent extremism, bit 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?" And so on and so forth, yadda, yadda, yadda.

Marie Harf is another example of people who are either ignorant of Islam or willfully deceiving the American public. 

But the public is not as gullible as it once was. According to a recent CNN poll,

most Americans believe Obama is handling the Islamic State as well as he handles a three-point shot from half court at the buzzer. 

Fifty-seven percent disapprove of his handling the ISIS threat, which is a significant decline since late September when it was 49%.

Is there anything this administration is doing that is working well?

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