“We cannot kill our way out of this war,” State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Monday night. “We need in the medium to longer term to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups, whether it’s a lack of opportunity for jobs --”
Here, Matthews, cut her off.
“We’re not going to be able to stop that in our lifetime or fifty lifetimes,” he blurted out. “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?”
Matthews, who is neither a hawk nor a knee-jerk critic of President Obama, had put his finger on the problem. To call economic deprivation a root cause of religious fanaticism is simply nonsensical.
As easy as it would be to blame Harf, it became obvious two days later, on Wednesday, that her blathering is administration policy. She was only expressing views of her boss.
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Their poverty is a root cause of the fanaticism, but it's one that can't be eliminated. To think otherwise (and act on that notion as a matter of policy) is simply nuts.
ReplyDeleteWe have killed our way out of many wars, and this we could too. We destroyed the fighting forces of the confederacy, the Indians, the Germans, the Japanese, all by bombing and starving the non-combatants. Time to kill, bomb, poison, burn and infect the members of terrorist families. The authorities know the names of who is on terrorist watch lists, members of terrorist organizations, and extremist. very easy to get them together and kill them.
ReplyDeleteBirds of a feather flock together.
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