Tuesday, February 17, 2015

U.S. State Department Spokesperson: Jobs, Not Killing, The Key To Defeating The Islamic State



Daily Mail: State Department advocates 'jobs' for jihadis instead of 'killing them,' as White House avoids mention of Christian beheading victims' religion and launches new 'hashtag diplomacy' effort

* 'Countering violent extremism' conference kicks off in Washington but the White House insists 'we are not treating these people as part of a religion'
* Marie Harf, the State Department's no. 2 spokeswoman, said Monday night that 'lack of opportunity for jobs' in the Middle East should be US focus
* 'We cannot win this war by killing them, we cannot kill our way out of this war,' she said of the ISIS terror army
* Lengthy statement from the White House after brutal killings of 21 Christians by ISIS-linked minitants in Libya made no mention of Christians or Muslims


WNU Editor: I am at a lost for words after hearing this.

More News On U.S. State Department Spokesperson Stating That Jobs, Not Killing, The Key To Defeating The Islamic State

State Department spokeswoman floats jobs as answer to ISIS -- FOX News
State Department on Islamic State: We can’t win ‘by killing them’ — need to get them jobs -- Washington Times
State Department spokesman: We need to go after ISIS’s root causes, like lack of job opportunities -- Hot Air

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Loss of Words????
Understatement of The Century!!
Maybe if they give them Food stamps and an obama phone they will stop the killings??

phill said...

Blonde with a pretty face that's all it took.

jimbrown said...

They need to add 12 year old marie harf.

jimbrown said...

They need to add 12 year old marie harf.

Jay Farquharson said...

WNU Editor,

https://news.vice.com/article/i-didnt-join-the-taliban-because-i-was-poor-i-joined-because-i-was-angry-report-finds-injustice-not-unemployment-radicalizes-youth

"What we found is that unemployment status is a very poor predictor of whether a person is going to join an insurgent group or not," he added. "A far better predictor is the experience of injustice, discrimination, marginalization, being on the receiving end of corruption, and experiences of physical violence and being abused by police, security forces, or having a family member killed. All of this, of course, is not to say that no one has ever joined a terrorist organization or armed militia because they needed food, but it's just generally not the case."