Random Thoughts

[cwo_ghwebb]

State Department official Marie Harf said, "We cannot win this war by killing them" but instead we need to get to the "root causes" of jihads by providing "job opportunities." We tried getting at the "root causes" of crime back in the 1960s -- and crime rates skyrocketed. But we stopped the Nazis in World War II by killing them, instead of setting up a jobs program in Germany.

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2015/03/04/random-thoughts-n1964681/page/full

Entire column is right on the money, as usual.

 

[edinsomd]

'State Department official Marie Harf said, "We cannot win this war by killing them" but instead we need to get to the "root causes" of jihads by providing "job opportunities." '

A gentleman named Curtis Lemay disagrees;
"If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting."
And he should know.

 

[cwo_ghwebb]

'State Department official Marie Harf said, "We cannot win this war by killing them" but instead we need to get to the "root causes" of jihads by providing "job opportunities." '

A gentleman named Curtis Lemay disagrees;
"If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting."
And he should know.

That's exactly how our generation was taught to deal with bullies. Now they just cry and go on facebook. Maybe the President should take his Federal budget for golf balls, leave his Secret Service protection at home and go actively do some community activist work in the slums Hamas controls.