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State Department’s Harf: “We cannot kill our way out of this war,” we need to give the jihadis job opportunities

Feb 17, 2015 11:17 am By Robert Spencer

In reality, it’s an unpleasant fact, but killing the enemy is indeed how wars have historically been won. Never in the history of the world has a war been won by alleviating the poverty of the enemy. And while even Chris Matthews finds this hard to swallow here, this is Obama Administration policy, and it was Bush Administration policy before that. The Washington establishment, both Democrat and Republican, believes that poverty causes terrorism, and that giving money to countries from which terrorists come will ultimately eradicate terrorism. There are three problems with this: first, study after study has shown that jihad terrorists are wealthier and better educated than their peers; second, this has been tried for years, with billions pumped into Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, and other countries, and it has failed: the problem of jihad terrorism is worse than ever; and third, the jihad terrorists believe they are warriors of Allah, the Lord of the Worlds — the noblest calling on earth. Does Marie Harf really think that they would give that up for a chance to say, “Would you like fries with that?”

“Harf: ‘We Can’t Kill Our Way’ Out of War Against ISIS,” by Ian Hanchett, Breitbart, February 16, 2015 (thank to Anne Crockett):

State Department Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf declared “we cannot win this war by killing them [ISIS], we cannot kill our way out of this war” on Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hardball.”

Harf said that the video of ISIS murdering Egyptian Christians “underscores to people that it isn’t just a fight in iraq and in syria and that it’s not just a fight about dropping bombs on terrorists. It’s really how we stop the causes that lead to extremism in a place like Libya, the fact that there’s no governance, and there’s no opportunity for young people, it lets groups like ISIL grow there and flourish there, which is what you saw with this awful situation with these Egyptians that you just mentioned, but this is a longer fight, it’s fighting them on social media…they’re using social media to get converts to their cause and to spread their hatred all over the world. This week, we’re going to have over 60 countries here in Washington to talk about how do we combat this violent extremism together in the long-term, not just in the short-term fight.

She continued spelling out the fight against ISIS after Matthews declared “if I were ISIS, I wouldn’t be afraid right now…nothing we do right now seems to be directed at stopping this” Harf stated “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 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…”

At this point, Matthews cut Harf off and argued “we’re not going to be able to stop that in our lifetime, or 50 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 responded “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. You’re right, there is no easy solution in the long-term to preventing and combating violent extremism, but 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 try to start a business? Maybe we can try– try to chip away at this problem, while at the same time going after the threat, taking on ISIL in Iraq, in Syria, and helping our partners around the world.”

Matthews remarked “this sounds like we’re going to get rid of juvenile delinquency in America over time by erasing poverty, improving education. Sure, over time. But the American people, I think, are getting humiliated morally by this.”…

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  1. Edgar Davidson says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 11:21 am

    Harf perfectly sums up the Obama adminstration’s world-view

    • jihad3tracker says

      Feb 17, 2015 at 11:39 am

      I actually give Chris Mathews some credit here for his emphatic pushback on Harf’s preposterous blather.

      OK, yes, as Robert Spencer says, these honorers of bloodthirsty Allah are NOT “poverty-stricken” — Mathews continues to get it wrong.

      The biggest howler ? When Harf says “What makes a 17 year old pick up an AK-47 instead of starting a business ?”

      Maybe Obama should declare that his proposal to make college free to everyone puts poor American Muslim teenagers on a fast track to entrepreneurial success.

      Each graduate will be sent a 3-D printer, courtesy of the State Department, so they can make —- uh —- on second thought, maybe not.

      • terry says

        Feb 17, 2015 at 1:32 pm

        Marie Harf is exactly the kind of crop western universities have been producing, for the last 25 years or so.

        With some exceptions, I almost always found that the most stubborn and confused, with an attitude, not only about Islam but about other important life or humanity issues, were people with higher education degrees.

        I stress “with some exceptions”, because having a higher education diploma or degree doesn’t automatically mean that someone would turn out to be stupid in facing certain issues. There are several people I know of, commenting on this site, who are doctors, lawyers, with master’s or PhD, and get it clearly right when it comes to the truth about Islam and its threat and who may be using their traditional education to serve the truth and the whole well-being of humanity.

        Meanwhile there is an important complex ingredient, parts of which are extensive cross section life experience, good analytic ability and congruence in seeking the truth, which when absent, in any individual, no matter what degree he/she has, leads to confused, ignorant and sometimes even delusional opinions and responses about certain life issues, including Islam’s threat.

        There is abundance of highly educated individuals, with different kinds of degrees, but who lack that essential complex ingredient, mentioned in the previous paragraph, who are in elected or leadership positions throughout the west. I think that’s what is f**king the west’s response to Islam’s threat!

      • cs says

        Feb 17, 2015 at 2:34 pm

        If you don’t provide me with a law degree plus job I will blow myself into pieces and kill a lot of kufar.
        If this sort of blackmail start to work, oh boy, we are doomed.

      • voegelinian says

        Feb 18, 2015 at 3:50 pm

        2018: President Hillary’s Secretary of Defense, Barack Hussein Obama, announces his “Reading over Radicalization” Program to help “young jihadis choose books over bombs” (never mind that they already chose the Book to end all Books…)

    • Alissa says

      Feb 17, 2015 at 11:51 am

      When I hear men and women with her elevated position and status speaking such utter, head shaking, bleary eyed nonsense, (and I hear it a lot), I realize…THERE’S NO HOPE! …Just hug the people you love and try to do good every day because…The ship is sinking.

      • cs says

        Feb 17, 2015 at 5:37 pm

        Yep, got the same feeling, thinking in doing Allya to die in the Land, and that is it. Wait for the end, at least will try to defend myself with an uzi.

  2. mariam rove says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 11:26 am

    Poverty, jobs, this and that. Bin Laden was worth billions and he had his people murder 3000 of our citizens. M

  3. jihad3tracker says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 11:26 am

    There is probably a vomitorium just offstage from the press venue where Harf and her associates often give statements . . . so they can throw up, after mouthing words that they privately know are laughed at by anyone with an IQ in the double digits.

  4. mortimer says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 11:27 am

    Naïve and gullible, Harf believes there is a ‘real’ explanation of jihad that only clever Leftarded cultural Marxists like her can understand.

    Whatever the jihadists say themselves about their sensual reward in paradise, Harf KNOWS MORE THAN THE JIHADISTS!

    75% of jihadists have university degrees and 90% come from stable homes. Jihadists are not ‘disadvantaged’…they are motivated by ‘ideation’…by jihad ideology…not Marxist ideology!

    Harf is the sort of brainwashed Leftard that will prevent us from defeating the jihadist ideology.

  5. mortimer says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 11:30 am

    Harf is a know-it-all apologist for Islam. She ‘knows’ Islam from her intuition because she has not read Islam’s source texts, that being beneath her.

    “Only bigots read the primary texts of Islam”…that seems to be her slogan.

  6. Charli Main says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 11:35 am

    Two sixteen-year-olds have been arrested by anti-terror police in Greater Manchester.

    The pair – a girl and a boy – were detained by the North West Counter Terrorism Unit on suspicion of being concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism.

    Ah shucks—If only we had given these two more job opportunities.

    We could of given them jobs as brain surgeons, company CEO´s, aero space engineers. Yes, indeed, if they hadn´t been denied job opportunities by us bigoted, racist Islamophobes they would of made ” enormous contributions” to Britain´s economy and society.

    • Andrew GB says

      Feb 17, 2015 at 12:40 pm

      In fairness charli they were from mossley! I’ve lived there. It is probably a pre-emptive strike from Top Mossley on Bottom Mossley. Its a local place for local people.

      Anything can happen in mossley its 1982 there Rocky IV is being shown at the George Lawton hall and they’ve just got space invaders!!!!!

      Up the Lillywhites!

  7. pumbar says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 11:35 am

    Move a great deal of first world wealth to the third world whilst importing millions of third worlders to the first world. Classic “redistribution of wealth”.

  8. Lesley says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 11:39 am

    The argument that poverty is the cause of extremism falls flat when you go searching for data to support it.

    The scarier thing that I see here is a hint that they will protect us on ‘social media’ by having the government control the internet and our access to information (please sign the petition against net neutrality and giving internet control to the FCC:

    http://action.politicalmedia.com/17314/constitutionally-say-no-to-fcc-internet-takeover/?ifr=820

    Instead of calling out Islam for what it is, they want to use it as an excuse to censor our voices and restrict our freedoms. Please tell your friends about this petition.

    Another scary prospect is that this hint of ‘we have give these poor people jobs’ is an attempt to get us warmed up to the idea of importing 50-100 million Muslim immigrants to the USA. I have heard and read some info from Avi Lipkin saying that the legal pathway that Obama is forging for illegal immigrants across the border with Mexico is to facilitate bringing mass numbers of Muslims immigrants here (while he holds court with the Muslim Brotherhood, which is only further destabilizing Middle East governments and giving power to the Islamists).

  9. Bezelel says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 11:41 am

    Sounds reasonable doesn’t it? There’s nothing like giving cancer nourishment to make it go away. Personally I’m leaning toward radiation treatment.

  10. Lesley says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 11:42 am

    Calling out poverty as a problem, while we’re enmeshed with the Saudis (who fund plenty of terror activities against the West), is nonsense.

    Also nonsense: President Obama paying his respects to the Saudi king, and skipping the Charlie Hebdo memorial…

  11. mortimer says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 11:42 am

    Islam CREATES poverty.

    Every Islamic country is backward because Islam crushes innovation…INNOVATION is a bad word in Islam.

  12. Thomas Paine says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 12:06 pm

    If we had only provided jobs to the Bushido-indoctrinated killers of WWII, then we would not have had Pearl Harbor.

    We should have parachuted job-placement advisors onto Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki instead of fire-bombing and obliterating the cities.

    Yeah right. To win and end WWII we had to make the consequences of following Bushido militarism apparent to all Japanese with cities in rubble before the population rejected the conquest ideas of Bushido (similar to Islam). Then the population would seek productive jobs and pursuit of happiness instead of desiring to pursuing death as divine wind for the emperor god.

    These clowns in the State Department have the causation totally inverted. Lack of productive jobs does not cause Islamofascism. Adopting the retrograde, medieval and violent ideas of Islamofascism causes the followers of those vile ideas to eschew productive jobs in pursuit of happiness and instead attempt conquest and subjugation through the sword.

    • Thomas Paine says

      Feb 17, 2015 at 1:01 pm

      …desiring to pursu[e]

  13. katnis says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 12:08 pm

    Ms. Harf seems overeducated and underexposed. Her argument is not based on reality, it is based on theory and fantasy, and it shows that she doesn’t understand the root of the problem.

    Ms Harf: Hey wanna-be jihadi, here’s some money. Now go be an accountant. Look how bright your future will be!

    Young Jihadi: What? My life is but a blip on the radar. I want to answer the higher call to fight for paradise on earth. I am willing to be a martyr and be rewarded with 72 virgins when I go to heaven. I am a warrior for Mohammed. I know this is the truth because I’ve been hearing it and reading it my whole life, just like millions of muslims before me.

    Ms. Harf: OK. So accounting’s not for you. What about nursing? How about being a carpenter? Don’t you want to be a carpenter?

  14. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 12:11 pm

    Harf offers a Marxian analysis, the handy off-the-shelf canned bilge they all bring out in a pinch. Apparently she wasn’t listening during her courses in the Russian and East European Studies Dept, cuz the musings of Karl are held in low regard there. But this is a bovinal move, not the urge to run with the pack, because the cows running the world’s elites frequently moo and always drop piles of shit wherever they are. Word has it that in the dark of the night they also like to bark like dogs.

    • J S Philobiblos says

      Feb 17, 2015 at 12:28 pm

      Actually your “handy off-the-shelf canned bilge” unfortunately describes much of the intellectual preparation of the people around Obama — he is probably more comfortable with this crowd. The Harfs are ignorant of history and useful in heeling to Obama’s Islamist agenda, making things safe and provide cover to Muslims so that they can conduct their subversion of Western democratic societies.
      Meanwhile Obama’s relativist agenda can condemn the “Crusaders and the Inquisition” (sic) and avoid condemning the burning of Christians in Iraq or their mass decapitation in Libya.
      This is the vilest person this country has elected to lead it . . .

  15. vlparker says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 12:12 pm

    Ms. Harf is why we, as conservatives, have a major problem in changing the direction of our government. These Ivy League educated idiots have infested the bureaucracy. Winning elections does nothing to displace these morons. And timid, milquetoast republicans who win elections but don’t have the gonads to clean house ensure that these people stay entrenched in the State Department and other bureaucracies until the next generation of Ivy League educated idiots comes along to take their places.

  16. Ren says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 12:13 pm

    What is more attractive for a muslim? Paradise or a business career? Have Harf or Obama thought of this issue?

  17. joeblough says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 12:13 pm

    I’ve got the perfect job opportunity for them; Shoveling Sh1t in Hell.

    It’s a shovel ready job.

    😉

  18. JeffS says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 12:17 pm

    I’m all in favor of looking at root causes. She’s just got her root causes all wrong.

  19. Frank Scarn says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 12:23 pm

    “. . . and third, the jihad terrorists believe they are warriors of Allah, the Lord of the Worlds — the noblest calling on earth.”

    In other words, they already have jobs. The best ones available from the Moon God itself.

  20. JamesonRocks says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 12:23 pm

    Jobs? Really? Hmm… We will need to include ObamaCare as part of the benefit package.

  21. Georg says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 12:32 pm

    Didn’t some of the 9/11 highjackers have PhDs?

    Maybe just give them thick-rimmed glasses. They’ll probably become so infatuated with the sheer trendiness of the glasses they’ll forget all about jihad. Do a humanitarian thick-rimmed glasses drop. I’m surprised the battle-hardened press reporter hasn’t thought of it.

  22. Mattt-ن says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 12:37 pm

    Hahahahahahaha
    Give them jobs..
    50 M of them in Europe 80% on walfare ..they are lazy fucks..
    I’d like to see what’s on thier resume lol
    ” expert in destroying building , any thing to do with knifes ,…..”
    You could give them a shot at a pig slaughter .. Oh wait they can’t touch that .. Bar tender oh no can’t do that .. Dog walker oh no dogs are dirty..

  23. Papa Whiskey says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 12:41 pm

    Those of us who are older than dirt will remember when Lyndon B. Johnson made an analogous offer to Ho Chi Minh in April of 1965. The president held out the prospect of a billion-dollar development program along the Mekong River if Ho would cease the North Vietnamese war effort. “Old Ho can’t turn me down,” LBJ told his press secretary Bill Moyers after his speech. Ho, of course, did just that — and the Vietnamese communists went on to win.

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/honor/filmmore/ps_peace.html

  24. Ugh!!! says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 12:44 pm

    Give me a break. I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood in the 1950s and 1960s of Jews (mostly concentration camp victims and their progeny,) Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Greeks, Irish, Chinese and a smattering of others. Many of these people were very poor and came to the US with nothing and they left from horrible conditions and persecution.
    No one asked for a handout in those days. The victims of Nazism didn’t complain. Everyone got on with their lives and my friends all graduated from college and became productive members of society.
    No one joined a terrorist group in my neighborhood because they were poor.

  25. Andrew GB says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 12:48 pm

    Sorry, shat was the bimbo saying? Give em a job??!!

    She’s obviously not worked with the idle fu@#ers! Get yourself out to Syria with a clipboard love and go and ask a few. Only after 1030am though, they arent morning people.

  26. Januk36 says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 12:51 pm

    Regarding poverty causing terror and

    “study after study has shown that jihad terrorists are wealthier and better educated than their peers”

    There is no need for wasting money in studies to come to the right conclusion. If poverty was the reason for terror you would similarly behaviour from poor people everywhere. I don’t see mexican illegals going rampant in the US or inuits on killer spree in “colonial” Denmark.

  27. Descendantofacrusader says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 12:59 pm

    Ultimately the star-struck State Department spokeswoman, Marie Harf, is only a mouthpiece for her boss, Sec. of State John Kerry, whom ISIS spokesman, Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, who last year labeled the bumbling Secretary an “old uncircumcised geezer,” Enough said?

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/22/islamic-state-john-kerry-youre-old-uncircumcised-g/#ixzz3S1e7izwR

  28. Jay Boo says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 1:16 pm

    If Obama keeps exporting jobs over to Muzzie-land countries, then all the illegal aliens he is inviting into the US will all have to go on welfare at tax payer expense.

  29. Jaladhi says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 1:18 pm

    When stupid people like are filling our government , only God can help us. As long as they are in power they will try their best to provide “jobs” to the world wide jihadis. First the jihadis will be given visa and green card to come to USA and then they will be given jobs in the government – we have already seen it doesn’t need any brain to be employed on government payrolls. Just listen to the delusion rant of Marie Harf.

    See the problem of Muslim jihad is solved so easily. Why wasn’t Marie Harf asked to solve this problem earlier?? I recommend she should replace John Kerry!!! LOL…

    Lying morons!!

    • Spot On says

      Feb 17, 2015 at 3:00 pm

      Harf makes me barf. Washington stupidity is the reason why our enemies do not fear us. With Washington in charge, we lose and the enemy knows it. If the Repubs were in charge, they would try to catch these savages while kissing their behind and imprisoning our soldiers for accidentally doing otherwise. These savages must laugh at us. ISIS soldiers already have a “job” and are well paid by ME standards and they apparently love their job. Total war using every resource, including killing them all, is the only viable answer but how long will it take for Washington to get it. The great WWII Gen. Curtis Lemay said that if you kill enough of the enemy you win. ISIS must have studied this good General and they have a definite plan to win that most certainly includes killing most of us.

  30. Jay Boo says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 1:22 pm

    The man who killed three Muslims over parking in Chapel Hill, NC was unemployed yet no one is blaming that as justification. Besides that we don’t even yet know if two of the victims might have been killed merely because they might have been potential witnesses to the first person shot.

    • Richie says

      Feb 17, 2015 at 2:21 pm

      Because the narrative of the left is that Muslims are always the victim, so if the Muslims, were killed, it must be because they are Muslim. Meanwhile, when Muslims butcher Christians, the narrative changes- the killers (Muslims) are seen as the victims, and the people they killed (Christians) juts random folks who brought it on themselves

  31. wildjew says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 1:28 pm

    “Never in the history of the world has a war been won by alleviating the poverty of the enemy…. this is Obama Administration policy, and it was Bush Administration policy before that…..”

    Spencer will NEVER be a guest on the Rush Limbaugh show. That former President Bush held a war could be won by alleviating the poverty or in winning hearts and minds of the enemy is heresy. Maybe it helps explain why Limbaugh boasts he has no guests on his program.

    • Spot On says

      Feb 17, 2015 at 3:08 pm

      Bush was an idiot. He was just one level above Harf. Bush thought they needed a hug while he imprisoned our soldiers for accidently hurting their little pinky. Someone should tell Harf that ISIS soldiers already have a good paying “job”. Their job is to kill her and us.

      • St. Croix says

        Feb 17, 2015 at 3:27 pm

        Yes, I’d say the jihadis have a real going concern there; money rolling in, lots of employment, come one, come all!

        Barf need a reality check. Funny, I grew up in a “backward” and poor part of the world and there was virtually no crime. The lifestyle was difficult and subsistence–there was very little money for anything. But were people picking up guns and attacking each other or other groups? No. Far from it. No one in the community even locked their doors. It was like that up until the 1970’s. It was not a perfect society, that’s not my point. Life would have been better and easier if there were SOME conveniences. However, the conclusion that poverty leads to crime is just so terribly flawed. So very wrong and basically unproven. Yes, the two can and often do occupy the same space so to speak, but poverty is NOT the cause. Unless we are talking about spiritual poverty.

  32. steve brown says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 1:39 pm

    We Killed our way out of world war 2 by dropping two atomic bombs. So it can be done.

    • Don McKellar says

      Feb 17, 2015 at 1:50 pm

      And we can kill our way out of the global jihad, too — and it’s only going to take one bomb. Ground zero on the “prophet’s” tomb in Mecca with the biggest bomb the free world has got, and it’s over for Islam as it exists today.

    • Spot On says

      Feb 17, 2015 at 3:11 pm

      Yes and much thanks to Gen Curtis Lemay who famously said that if you kill enough of the enemy, you win. Simple as that!

    • Richie says

      Feb 17, 2015 at 9:27 pm

      If only Allen West was president, he would wipe out the Jihadists

  33. Angemon says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 2:00 pm

    but 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 try to start a business?

    It’s that thing that you say both that it doesn’t exist and it’s just as bad in Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc. (because the narrative is that all religions teach the same) – the religious duty to wage warfare against unbelievers.

    By now it should be clear that throwing oat them doesn’t work – even if it doesn’t disappear into offshore accounts of petty dictators and middle managers, or goes to the hands of the people they should be fighting against, it ends up strengthing their conviction: the unbelievers are coughing up the jizya, like islamic orthodoxy states, because they fear the “soldiers of allah”.

    • Angemon says

      Feb 17, 2015 at 2:02 pm

      Ups, that should read “throwing money at them” rather than “throwing oat them” – damn touchscreen and auto-corrector 😀

  34. Richie says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 2:02 pm

    Muslims kill because they are Muslims.

    Its that simple.

  35. Richie says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 2:06 pm

    Is it my imagination, of is she trying to paint the jihadists as victims?

  36. cs says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 2:31 pm

    Does she believe what she saying? It is was one of the most moronic comments I have ever heard, anyone with a piece of brain left will realize this people are clueless, or want to be displayed as such.

  37. Champ says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 2:54 pm

    I don’t know, Harf, it’s going to be hard finding *jobs* for jihadists that feel as passionate about as murder and mayhem as they do. You see, they are murderers at heart, and soulless perps don’t care about the same things that you and I care about. They live in a whole nother world. Wow and you really are naive, aren’t you? Just sayin’ …

  38. nacazo says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 2:56 pm

    Genius!!! Why didn’t Franklin Delano Roosevelt thought of that????

    We could have won WWII by giving jobs to nazis, and Japanese fanatics instead of getting all those soldiers killed in Normandy, Iwo Jima, etc…

    /sarc off

  39. Leith Wood says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 2:59 pm

    How did we win World War 11 without advice from Maria and Jen ? Hit the mute button, when they speak. Disgusting and very sad!

  40. More Ham Ed says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 3:07 pm

    “causes that leads” – first off, grammatically, the word ’causes’ in this context refers to a singular group.

    “root causes that leads [sic] people to join these groups, whether it’s lack of opportunity for jobs..”

    Obama sorority girls, ostrich-Oslo wannbees.

    It’s more like a lack of opportunity to rewrite and reform the unholy quran, something that’s not going to happen.

    It’s more like root verses that lead current day followers to join these “groups.”

    Muslims are at war with neighbors EVERYWHERE around the world:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrgetf8jGLQ&hd=0

    Some of it’s not

    Yah, about 1% of worldwide terrorism is NOT Islamic.

    http://thereligionofpeace.com

    “State Department’s Harf…”

    More like State Department’s Barf.

  41. BlueRaven says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 3:09 pm

    “to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups, whether it’s lack of opportunity for jobs…”

    or going after the Mosques … the Terror Recruitments Central.

    No she didn’t say that last sentence, but she should have then she was worth my tax $ I pay for. She aint worth a dime. The Government offices are full of creeps and it is freeking me out.

  42. Jack Holan says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 3:15 pm

    There is no arguing with hard core leftist who want to inflict their vision of the World on everyone. Who knows exactly where Obama stands. It’s ether to bring us to some point and then bring in the MB or start the vision there use Sharia creep here. I know one thing Robert, the people in the Administration disdain Christians and Jews.

  43. Leith Wood says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 3:17 pm

    How dumb do the thugs in Washington think we are? Very. Those were Coptic Christians from Egypt, who were brutally beheaded by Isis, because they were Christians. They were also Egyptian citizens, but that is so obviously beside the real point. Wake up, before Americans are the ones on the deserted beaches being beheaded.

  44. Jerry says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 3:23 pm

    Sounds like the Obamination in Chief is bent on creating job opportunities in the US for the skilled beheaders the IS could spare.

  45. Sam says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 3:39 pm

    WOW!!!!!!

  46. DVult says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 4:06 pm

    Isn’t the objective when at war to kill or harm the enemy? We should find out where this woman was miseducated then offer scholarships to all of our enemies so they can attend these institutions of higher mind destroying bs.

  47. duh_swami says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 4:22 pm

    Possibly Barf and ‘Lurch’ can travel to Mosul to organist a jobs fair. Boko Haram could also benefit from a jobs program.

  48. jay says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 4:26 pm

    If this were any other age we would have overthrown this government years ago. That is complete and utter nonsense, no one with any rational logical thoughts would ever think for a second that giving money to those that want to kill you is a good idea. Especially if you know anything about the cultural mindset and ways of thinking, which are not like ours. The only thing it might achieve is to make you a permanent welfare provider, but at its very definition it’s passive surrender. Like offering up your apartment to your home invader and then supporting him in the hopes he’ll “get back on his feet”.

    • voegelinian says

      Feb 18, 2015 at 3:07 pm

      “If this were any other age we would have overthrown this government years ago. ”

      The problem is that the majority of the “We (the People)” of your equation is deformed by the same PC MC paradigm which informs this State Department spokeswoman; so the groundswell you expect is simply not (yet) there.

      That’s the problem with the simplistic “Dastardly Leftists” and “Dastardly Elites” memes of too many in the Counter-Jihad; they tend to predispose one to mischaracterize the nature of the Problem (P2) of the Problem P1) — where P1 is Islam, and P2 is the continued myopia of the West in grappling with P1 (hence, as the attentive reader will detect, uncovering a P3).

      And, lurking behind that, even a P4:

      The problem: the problem of the problem, the problem of the problem of the problem—and the problem of the problem of the problem of the problem.

      http://hesperado.blogspot.com/2009/01/problem-of-problem-problem-of-problem.html

  49. Vox populi says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 4:58 pm

    Just someone blond can think to counter the promise of paradise with the promis of a job as burger flipper. Mah

    • somehistory says

      Feb 17, 2015 at 8:09 pm

      It isn’t the *blond*….it’s the bleach to help her pretend to be blond. Some blonds may be dumb, but not all are. Most are not muslim, either.

  50. somehistory says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 5:10 pm

    If Harf and her bosses had roaches in the pantry, they’d spray a few and leave scraps of food on the kitchen counters, and dirty dishes in the sink to feed the ones not sprayed, hoping the roaches would stop getting into the fresh bread and donuts in the breadbox.

    War is terrible. Little kids orphaned and dying, old men and old ladies losing sons and daughters, and young women left as widows…all bad results of war. But the muslims waging jihad or funding jihad….have money. Money for weapons and ammunition and travel expenses. They get money from illegal activities, such as drugs from poppies, etc. They are not poor like so many of their victims are…the 21 Christians who went to Egypt for jobs. for instance… just because they haven’t *started a business.*

    The one thing that will be the ultimate end of islam and its evil, its atrocities, its abuse of all non-muslims and little children…will be a war…the war of Armageddon (Revelation 16: 13-16). The war of the wild beast and false prophet against Christ and His army of angels.

    • Champ says

      Feb 17, 2015 at 5:16 pm

      If Harf and her bosses had roaches in the pantry, they’d spray a few and leave scraps of food on the kitchen counters, and dirty dishes in the sink to feed the ones not sprayed, hoping the roaches would stop getting into the fresh bread and donuts in the breadbox.

      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

      Great analogy, Somehistory! ..and the remainder of your comment is spot on, too. And I think that we are living in the end times, as well.

      • somehistory says

        Feb 17, 2015 at 5:36 pm

        Thanks, Champ.
        Jesus said for us to raise ourselves erect and lift our heads when we see these things, knowing our deliverance is near (Luke 21:28). We who believe, you and I and others, may be ridiculed for believing (2 Peter 3:4), but the evidence is clear.

  51. gamma says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 6:07 pm

    The root cause is they are being brainwashed in the mosques. Blow up the mosques and the Imam’s who are in them and you’ll go a long way to eliminating the root cause.

  52. Wellington says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 6:24 pm

    I actually have come to enjoy watching Marie Harf. She has managed to become a parody of herself, which is not an easy thing to do, but she has achieved this. I mean if you were to dream up a parody of a US State Department spokesman, does anyone think they could top Harf? Perhaps, but it would be a deuce difficult thing to do. Ditto for other Obama mouthpieces like, oh let’s see, Josh Earnest, Jen Psaki and, of course, the fool of fools, John Kerry. Really, if all these doofuses weren’t in charge of things important, then it could be Laugh City all the time but often one has the realization that, oh my God, these clowns, including the Clown-in-Chief, are presently in charge of the most powerful country on earth. Oh yeah, time for a Yuengling Porter. Maybe two.

    • voegelinian says

      Feb 18, 2015 at 3:47 pm

      If Tina Fey or Amy Poehler weren’t themselves deformed by PC MC, they could concoct, then execute an excellent parody of Marie Barf.

  53. commonsense says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 6:35 pm

    Harf’s idiotic remark ( “We cannot kill our way out of this war”) reminds me of Obama’s equally idiotic remark of 2008, when he airily declared – in response to the sharp rise in the price of crude oil – that “We can’t drill our way out of this.” Both assertions smack of impotence, defeatism, and profound ignorance. A cockroach has a better grasp of economics, Muslim doctrine, and the nature of warfare. We are truly bereft of leadership.

  54. D.C. Watson says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 7:13 pm

    At a time when he still had a face and two eyes, and hadn’t yet been caught by our Navy Seals, Osama bin Laden was a multi-millionaire, and yet was still an asshole jihadist. Money has nothing to do with it.

  55. RCCA says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 7:43 pm

    Is she proposing opening Obama Butcher Shops to provide jobs for jihadis?

  56. mjzman says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 9:18 pm

    “jobs” = jizyah

    • M S case says

      Feb 18, 2015 at 8:51 pm

      SURE YOU CAN KILL YOUR WAY OUT OF A WAR……IF YOU DECLARE WAR AND HAVE THE RESOLVE TO FINISH IT. BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE WE DID THAT THOUGH………..WE HAVEN’T DID THAT SINCE WW2….WELL MAYBE THE GULF WAR BUT IN REALITY WE DIDN’T FINISH THAT .IF WE HAD THEN I DON’T THINK WE WOULD BE WHERE WE ARE AT TODAY WITH ISIS AND OTHERS. THAT IS IF WE HAD FOLLOWED THROUGH.

  57. David, Thailand says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 9:24 pm

    “…the American people, I think, are getting humiliated morally by this.”

    If the American people had any credibility left, having elected Obama or whatever his real name is not once in error, but twice, they would be grossly humiliated by their leaders capitulating to Islam.

  58. Bezelel says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 9:32 pm

    Women like Harf are why I don’t date liberal women anymore. Sure they’re easy but the ridiculous nonsense that comes out of their mouth is spooky.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTDzFUlrDYM
    Just listen to this tune and you’ll understand Miss Harf. IMHO

    • M S case says

      Feb 18, 2015 at 8:43 pm

      What you do to your enemy is contain them or kill them or for the best results you contain them then kill them. It’s on the way just a matter of time…Hold on world

  59. MKG says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 9:34 pm

    This socialist bullshit is insufferable. I firmly believe there are plenty of poor jihadists, but I can not believe they joined because of poverty. Jihad doesn’t exactly make one rich. Nor will accepting hand outs from others change their minds. In fact, accepting charity from infadels would be a slap in the face to them, as if suggesting jihad and living by islamic teachings was inadequate. Besides, what makes our government think they can cure poverty in other countries while our economy is hanging on by its finger nails.

  60. catcha says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 9:48 pm

    This is so incredible I am speechless. Thank God there are some smart people out there that can counter this delusion.

  61. Antonius Tanoso says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 9:55 pm

    Good thought, maybe the US should have a good job program for those ISIS people

    • M S case says

      Feb 18, 2015 at 8:47 pm

      ” a great job for them’ but first they must become American citizens…………maybe Obama will just give them amnesty. HIS PEN IS READY DTO SIGN.

  62. silvergreycat says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 10:46 pm

    Ezra Levant adds… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn9JSSRA9-Q

    As does Trifecta… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDof9vtHEk0

  63. Ed says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 11:08 pm

    She may be right about something. The only job opportunity for a jihadist to earn an actual living would be either working for BHO administration or the brotherhood.

    • Jay Boo says

      Feb 18, 2015 at 12:07 am

      I would like to chip in on a plane ticket to give her the opportunity to visit ISIS and establish an appeasement dialog about job opportunities so she can prove us all wrong about ISIS. Won’t we all feel so silly for doubting her after ISIS members throw down their weapons and sing — the Coca-Cola song.

      • Ed says

        Feb 18, 2015 at 12:16 am

        Finally I understand what that slogan really meant, “Hope and Change we can believe in.”
        All BHO is trying to do is convert all non-believers, literally, through Jihad.

  64. pongidae rex says

    Feb 18, 2015 at 12:19 am

    The weaponization of procreation by Islamists has resulted in an exponential population explosion and gross overpopulation in Islamic countries. The result is a generation of young men who have zero options outside emigration to the West and its social welfare system, or joining an extremisit movement. The notion that you can ‘find jobs’ for an exploding population demonstrates the strategic incompetence and magical thinking of this administration. This is what happens when you have a scientifically and mathematically illiterate lawyer running your country.

  65. Larry A. Singleton says

    Feb 18, 2015 at 1:02 am

    I am so fucking depressed. I didn’t think anything could be worse than seeing my wages go from 16 down to 8 bucks an hour and then having my face rubbed in it by “Pressing 1 for English” but I’m proved wrong almost Every Fucking Day. We are going downhill and gaining speed.

    • Bezelel says

      Feb 18, 2015 at 5:03 pm

      Larry, Just keep remembering, you’re not alone in this.

  66. Richard says

    Feb 18, 2015 at 2:27 am

    Few are aware that ISIS following their Sharia law literally have barbaric criminstatutes and behavior, but their civil law offers a social welfare system that gives food, clothing and shelter free to all Muslim adherents for life. Work is optional. That’s why young and older Muslims and converts are flocking there. This is better than the social welfare systems in Europe where Muslims are detested. We must fight them strategically. We must play Al-Queda against ISIS against Iran etc who all despise each other. These people are not geniuses. Somewhere in there might be moderate Islam. Let’s find these folks and pay and help them to become Imans world over. The inner core of Islam is Sufism which is mystical and brilliant. Let’s bring these folks out of hiding. And of course we must stay with the sane Muslim countries of the world and bomb, bomb. Assad must be killed even if ISIS moves in.That is where we must destroy them. Then let all factions of Islam fight against themselves. Let Iran and Turkey defeat ISIS. Then we might have to go in to maintain borders. Divide Iraq up between the Shiites, and Kurds, two separate countries.

  67. duh-swami says

    Feb 18, 2015 at 3:51 am

    Jogs for jihadi’s and potential jihadi’s…How many jobs is that?
    Harf, Rice, Jen, Valarie, Rasool O and others remind me of a cast from the ‘Twilight Zone’ episode…..

  68. torino390 says

    Feb 18, 2015 at 6:32 am

    oh bless her. she’s completely clueless isn’t she?

  69. wallace says

    Feb 18, 2015 at 8:34 am

    If she loses the spectacles she might go for a few extra bucks when she is up for auction at the slave market.

  70. ken says

    Feb 18, 2015 at 9:43 am

    This liberal fool is delusional. Please vote out these idiots. No more liberal progressives.

  71. Proud English Infidel says

    Feb 18, 2015 at 11:06 am

    Well she is blonde, so perhaps lacks a brain cell or two…

  72. andrew sapia says

    Feb 18, 2015 at 11:11 am

    what a dimwit. She needs to be put in a burka sent to Afghanistan.

  73. ryukyu1961 says

    Feb 18, 2015 at 11:45 am

    Oh yes, I would just love to be flipping burgers standing next to a fellow who just a few short weeks ago beheaded a child…….

  74. Solange says

    Feb 18, 2015 at 2:02 pm

    I agree with her to a point. This is obviously not about poverty. We are fighting an ideology, which continues to flourish and to infect its followers all over the globe. Even if one generation is killed, the next steps up to take its place, which is what we are seeing here. The only answer is to relieve them of an ideology with which they have been brainwashed pretty much from birth. This is done through education, which takes time, time we don’t have, and which would certainly be met with hard resistance, quite the dilemma. And, as I look at the bigger picture, it is obvious to me that all of this began “on cue,” and, since our governments are almost unanimously complicit with the spread of sharia and the demands of Islam, an agenda most certainly must exist, using a Muslim caliphate as its means.

    • voegelinian says

      Feb 18, 2015 at 2:53 pm

      ” The only answer is to relieve them of an ideology with which they have been brainwashed pretty much from birth. This is done through education…”

      That’s the problem with “Solution”-oriented analyses; they logically lead to seeking some sort of simplex finality to a problem that may be more complex and multifarious; and thus they lead to an obfuscation of pragmatic exigencies. The main pragmatic exigency we face is to minimize Muslims killing us and plotting to kill us in more horrific ways in the coming years. Grand visions of “ending Islam” or “re-educating Muslims” etc. can continue to be pursued over the Pipe Dream Think Tank; but in the meanwhile, we need to start taking measures to protect our societies from Murderous Muslims (and their deceptively peaceful Mendacious Muslims).

  75. Lioness says

    Feb 18, 2015 at 3:39 pm

    Poverty? What poverty? ISIS is flushed with money from Saudis and indirectly from American taxpayers that support corrupt Muslim regimes. They have more money than any Western nation.

  76. John Day says

    Feb 18, 2015 at 3:52 pm

    Hey Marie Harf, I have a suggestion for your jobs training program for jihadis. The first week should be devoted to teaching them to substitute for “Allahu Akbar” something like “do you want fries with that?” Shouldn’t be too hard if you don’t allow them near the sharp kitchen utensils.

  77. prman says

    Feb 18, 2015 at 5:31 pm

    “Would you like fries with that?” A great sense of humor, Robert!

  78. Eric says

    Feb 18, 2015 at 6:03 pm

    So what kind of job would Harf suggest is better than killing infidels with a retirement plan of guaranteed virgins, 72 or so, and so much more.

  79. Jim says

    Feb 18, 2015 at 8:08 pm

    GIVE THEM JOBS??!! – – – Are you serious??!!

  80. alyn21 says

    Feb 19, 2015 at 5:11 am

    Marie Harf reminds me of some of the female performers from Saturday Night Live. That is what makes me think (hope) that this must be a comedy sketch that she is performing. Jobs for Jihadis??!! It is not possible for anyone to be that stupid.

  81. Angemon says

    Feb 19, 2015 at 12:42 pm

    http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2015/02/jobs-for-jihadists-applications.html

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