“However, when State Department spokeswoman Mary Harf appeared on live television and asserted that the best way to defeat the Islamic State was by offering its members better ‘job opportunities,’ the idea that the State Department is run by fools became increasingly plausible.” “Critic Blasts Obama Narrative on Islam,” by F. Michael Maloof for WND, August 8, […]
Robert Spencer, PJM: Obama: Climate Change Causes Jihad
Over at PJ Media I discuss the recent appalling and fact-free statements by Obama: State Department deputy spokesperson Marie Harf was widely ridiculed in February for saying of the Islamic State (ISIS): We cannot win this war by killing them, we cannot kill our way out of this war. We need, in the longer term, […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage Mag: The Jihadi Job Application
Over at FrontPage today I discuss why Marie Harf’s notorious claim that the jihadis just need jobs is wrong: they already have jobs. State Department Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf was widely ridiculed in February for saying of the Islamic State (ISIS): “We cannot win this war by killing them, we cannot kill our way out […]
State Department’s Harf: “We cannot kill our way out of this war,” we need to give the jihadis job opportunities
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 […]