Hey, don’t worry guys. Team Obama has a strategy to once a for all defeat ISIS, but it doesn’t involve killing them, no siree. The U.S. will defeat ISIS with … wait for it … jobs!
For real. And here’s State Department deputy spokesperson Marie Harf making that argument to Chris Matthews last night. Transcript via Power Line:
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, to his credit, quickly shot her down:
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?
Here’s video of the exchange:
If you’ve lost leg-tingles…
And check out this awesome mockalanche from some of our favorite conservative Tweeters taking Ms. Harf to task over her happy hope-and-change rhetoric:
https://twitter.com/MattCover/status/567686932101332992
I defy you to cite a stupider string of words ever uttered by another human being in the history of mankind. http://t.co/zRDnXNR6S3
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) February 17, 2015
https://twitter.com/MattCover/status/567685983169421312
@MattCover German unemployment fell from 30% in 1932 to under 5% in 1938. What followed was peace in our time….oh, wait.
— James Wester (@jameswester) February 17, 2015
https://twitter.com/Will_Antonin/status/567686246563319809
The problem isn't that ISIS needs jobs. The problem is that Marie Harf has one.
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) February 17, 2015
Actual Obama admin quote: "We cannot win this war by killing them. We can help them so they have job opportunities." http://t.co/AYAN1Jw9Y4
— Razor (@hale_razor) February 17, 2015
Marie Harf on ISIS: "We can help them build their economies so they can have job opportunities for these people." pic.twitter.com/6hUzPmJ0C3
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) February 17, 2015
This may sound stupid, but it EXACTLY echoes the strategy outlined by Susan Rice. Give radical Islamists jobs & hopehttp://t.co/Mtg26yk0J5
— Stacey (@ScotsFyre) February 17, 2015
Was naziism defeated b/c we got to 'root causes' like lack of jobs – or by killing them? http://t.co/oLYUsCPCZX
— Brian Faughnan (@BrianFaughnan) February 17, 2015
Two long years ahead… @scottwjohnson "We won’t win the war…until Barack Obama and his crowd lose their jobs."http://t.co/zfG6uZ6yw5
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) February 17, 2015
@BillKristol So how do we win? By having Harf and Psaki hash-tag them to death? Pathetic bunch of pansies in charge.
— Michael Walsh (@dkahanerules) February 17, 2015
Oh yes Ms. Harf, ISIS beheads over a 'lack of jobs.' They just want 2 be someone's Boy Friday! http://t.co/1LyOQcYlI0 pic.twitter.com/hFtFDhMmxN
— RebeccaReigelsberger (@RebeccaReigels) February 17, 2015
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Update:
https://twitter.com/BenHowe/status/567709121814614017
What. A. Joke.
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with video.
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