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Obama Admin. Spokeswoman Says This Is the Key to Defeating Islamic State
theblaze.com ^ | february 16, 2015 | Jason Howerton

Posted on 02/17/2015 7:10:59 AM PST by lowbridge

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To: lowbridge

I CANNOT believe the GOP is so incompetent as to let these people coast to two victories. Especially 2012 with more on the record.

This is possibly the most idiotic and most ignorant worldview in the history of western culture. It dwarfs the ‘peace in our time’ culture of Europe pre-WWII.


21 posted on 02/17/2015 7:17:40 AM PST by ilgipper
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To: lowbridge
Instead, she said the U.S. needs to focus on the “medium to longer term to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups,” such as “lack of opportunity for jobs.”

Do they honestly think this is an unemployment issue????? It's not; it's a hatred issue. And good jobs is not going to make that go away.

22 posted on 02/17/2015 7:19:30 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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We can help them build their economies so they can have job opportunities for these people.”

There isn't one, NOT ONE, muslim non-oil based economy that is successful.

Islam isn't conducive to success.

23 posted on 02/17/2015 7:19:40 AM PST by RoosterRedux (WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
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To: lowbridge
The US State Dept back TERRORISM from Benghazi to the "rebels".


24 posted on 02/17/2015 7:20:06 AM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: lowbridge

I’m beginning to think the only way to defeat ISIS is to imprison every liberal in government; in all Western governments. That includes even the dog catchers.

All other liberal would have their freedom of speech suspended as not being “PC”.


25 posted on 02/17/2015 7:20:46 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Pearls Before Swine
"I disagree. His opinion of himself is so high that he thinks they should get down on their knees, be grateful for the opportunity, and pleasure him, all in the service of the Greater Caliphate. "

Absolutely. The undocumented Tyrant is disappointed
that ISIL is just not as weak and docile
and blindly a$$licking as the EXEMPT US Congress.

26 posted on 02/17/2015 7:22:01 AM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: lowbridge

As LTC Ralph Peters said a couple of weeks ago, the only way to win this war is to kill ALL the jihadis.


27 posted on 02/17/2015 7:22:13 AM PST by RoosterRedux (WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
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To: RoosterRedux

Islamists don’t really care about this life. Liberals don’t get it.


28 posted on 02/17/2015 7:22:20 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: lowbridge
the U.S. needs to focus on the “medium to longer term to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups,” such as “lack of opportunity for jobs.”


29 posted on 02/17/2015 7:22:58 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: lowbridge
Harf is so stupid it's frightening.

...and earned an MA in Foreign Affairs from University of Virginia.[2] --Wikipedia

There's a column up by Dennis Prager this morning that the more stupid the statement, the greater the education.

Running close to 100% correct so far.

30 posted on 02/17/2015 7:24:05 AM PST by onedoug
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To: lowbridge

I listen to trucker’s radio in the AM on my way to work. They were having a field day with this one ... lots of laughs.

Even Chris Matthews wasn’t bamboozled.


31 posted on 02/17/2015 7:25:21 AM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: lowbridge

““medium to longer term to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups,” such as “lack of opportunity for jobs.”

And yet, when you look at how many suicide bombers were professionals, and look at how wealthy bin Laden was, and the fact that the Marathon Bombers were quite comfortable with their welfare checks plus drug profits, you gotta wonder if the Marxist approach to Islamic militancy is correct, that it’s caused by economic forces wielded by the wealthy and bourgeois against the powerless proletariat.

A Marxist apparently has trouble accepting even the possibility that religion and faith and culture might have a little to do with the current conflict, that strict obedience to commandments set in a book might influence people’s motives to act.


32 posted on 02/17/2015 7:25:30 AM PST by DBrow
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I agree that killing them is not the ultimate solution. The problem is cultural. It's been going on since the seventh century.

The terrorists are the symptom of the disorder. With deal with that by killing them.

The disorder is an unreformed Islam. The muslim religious leaders must reform their religion to stop the massacres that are surely coming to their people.

33 posted on 02/17/2015 7:26:02 AM PST by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: lowbridge

She’s right.

It was the same with the NAZIS and Japanese in World War II. IF we had created jobs for them they would have laid down their weapons and clerked at Walmart.

Those liberals... no one’s smarter than them....


34 posted on 02/17/2015 7:26:34 AM PST by GOPJ (If you can't get on the high horse for men burned alive and children raped, what's the horse for?)
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To: lowbridge
What nonsense!
The leadership of the jihadis is largely from wealthy, educated men.

Nation-building was a pipe-dream, but reforming dysfunctional societies is in unicorn-land. It is just an excuse to use US taxpaper money/debt to fund O Muslim friends.

35 posted on 02/17/2015 7:26:36 AM PST by expat2
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It was so stupid even Chris Matthews was pulling back....


36 posted on 02/17/2015 7:27:28 AM PST by GOPJ (If you can't get on the high horse for men burned alive and children raped, what's the horse for?)
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To: expat2

....to use US taxpaper money/debt to fund O’s Muslim friends.


37 posted on 02/17/2015 7:29:02 AM PST by expat2
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To: lowbridge

I thought I had seen jaw dropping stupidity before, but this one beats all.


38 posted on 02/17/2015 7:29:56 AM PST by JustaCowgirl (Arguing with a liberal is like arguing with a rat about whether he eats people scraps.)
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To: lowbridge
Related PowerLine article here.
39 posted on 02/17/2015 7:30:14 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: lowbridge

I agree with her that we can’t win by killing them.
Besides, they are slaughtering each other pretty efficiently, so why interfere?

However, it is none of our concern whether or not they have jobs. And it is none of our business if Muslims are slaughtering other Muslims.


40 posted on 02/17/2015 7:30:19 AM PST by Lorianne (fed pork, bailouts, gone taxmoney)
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