I want to apologize for the lateness of this post…..I wrote it as the problem was occurring but got sidetracked with a family medical emergency….ergo it did not make it in when planned…..
Before I begin let me say……if someone is a political hack then they have a gig with FOX news. Liars and mental midgets, each and every one.
The morons on the Right are having a good week…..the first is a story, a made up story, about whether the people killed in Libya were ‘Christians” and if they were why not acknowledge the fact? This was a YAWN and has NO value after the fact….
But the biggest one, at least for a day or so, was the State dept employee, Harf, and her statement that the problem in the Middle East was the lack of jobs……after she stated this the hawks both right and left began to stroke out…….(to be honest it is just great to see morons argue over something that does not fit their narrative)…….but to be honest….FOX is not the only outlet stroking out……MSNBC’s Morning Joe, who is a tool in his own right, is also going the distance and the same network’s Chris Matthews is another one that belittled the person that made the statement……
I know what statement?
State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf also had this to say about ISIS recruiting and the Obama administration policy on the ongoing terror threat:
“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 medium to longer term to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups, whether it’s lack of opportunity for jobs. 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.”
She made the statement and Twitter lit up like a Christmas tree……and the media pundits heads began exploding.
Okay my take…….she is right but not completely……..jobs and opportunity and good governance would go a long way to lessening the amount of people available for a terrorist pool.
I realize that most of the media pundits cannot see poverty and what it does to people from their ivory tower while sitting on their stacks of cash……do not care where they came from…..they have lost all perspective of what devastating poverty will do to a person. Or what lengths they will go to to remove themselves or their family from the debilitating state of affairs.
Since war has a way of increasing the state of poverty….then apparently it is not a solution at all……it will however increase poverty and in turn will increase those searching for a way out of the situation. Extremist groups have been known to pay the families of bombers for their devotion.
Job creation is the solution. With jobs come dignity, stability, choice, and typically moderation. Regretfully the Middle East region is pursuing the path of accelerated job destruction. War, political uncertainty, and increasing governmental focus on financial control and centralized planning are destroying opportunity and maintaining economic power with the traditional elite.
Only a mental midget would dismiss that facts because they cannot grasp the characteristics of poverty or the end result. And apparently this country is chock full of mental midgets.
It is too late to try and fix the Middle East problem with jobs…….it is a vicious cycle that will go on and on…….war, destruction, poverty and extremism….a path that NO one has any idea how to resolve.
Your font is getting pretty big there, bro…lol…
Holy crap! What the Hell? I know I’m old but…….thanx my friend