Random Politics & Religion #00

Speaking of Scotch I haven't had some in quite a while I'm past due.

State Department spokesperson Marie Harf said on MSNBC that the U.S. cannot "kill our way out" of the war against ISIS, bringing up job creation as a long-term solution to stopping the terror army.

"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," Harf said. "We need, in the longer term, medium and longer term, to go after the root causes that lead 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."

Laura Ingraham said on "Fox and Friends" that the Obama administration's strategy in the fight against ISIS is growing "increasingly untenable."

She pointed out that many of the people who have joined ISIS were actually middle class and upper middle class citizens who were employed and had plenty of opportunities.

"This is an insult to all the people in the world who are actually poor and are not blowing people up and not targeting Christians," Ingraham said. "This is a religious war. The rest of the world is waking up to this and there's one person ... who doesn't get this, and it's the President of the United States"

Ingraham asserted that Obama and people like Harf are hurting the cause of destroying evil because they refuse to call it what it is.

State Department spokesperson Marie Harf said Monday night that the battle against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant will be a “longer fight.”

“We cannot win this war by killing them; we cannot kill our way out of this war,” Harf said on MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews.”

She continued, “We need in the longer term … to go after root causes that leads people to join these groups.”

Harf said the State Department is focused on stopping the causes of terrorism in the Middle East, such as lack of job opportunities, poor education for young people and weak governance in countries where extremism flourishes. In the short term, Harf said, U.S.-led air strikes are taking ISIL leaders and fighters off the battlefield.

“There is no easy solution in the long term to preventing and combating Islamic extremism, but if we can help countries work at the root causes of this,” Harf said, “maybe we can try to chip away at this problem while at the same time going after the threat.”

Matthews responded that Americans do not have time for a longer approach and will continue to be “humiliated morally.”

Harf then urged Americans who would like faster action to contact their member of Congress and push for the passage of President Barack Obama’s three-year war authorization against ISIL, which was introduced to Congress last Wednesday.

“This isn’t just a fight in Iraq or Syria, and it’s not just a fight about dropping bombs on terrorists,” Harf said. “It’s really how we stop the causes that lead to extremism.”

On Wednesday, the Obama administration will host a Summit on Countering Violent Extremism “to highlight domestic and international efforts to prevent violent extremists” from “radicalizing, recruiting, or inspiring individuals … to commit acts of violence,” the White House said in a statement.

According to Harf, representatives from about 60 countries will attend the Washington, D.C., conference.

Harf took to Twitter on Tuesday to defend her comments after an outpouring of conservative criticism on Fox News and online.

“Military ldrs have long said [counter terrorism] takes more than military action,” she tweeted, citing former President George W. Bush and former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s past remarks on the need to combat poverty to fight terrorism.

Harf added, “Point is that pols across spectrum, military cmdrs, & CT experts all agree strategy needs to address conditions that allow extremism to grow.”

In the USA there have been zero deaths from measles since 2004. But there have been over 100 deaths from vaccinations. Seems simple to me.

A) Zero measles deaths because vaccines prevents people from contracting it in the first place.

B) In countries that doesn't enforce measles vaccines, the death rate is around 146k children per year.

C) Before the measles vaccine was introduced. there were about 2.6 million children dying from it every year.

So, care to explain any of that?

146K world wide in third world countries where poor diet and poor health are a way of life.

If people in the USA did not succumb to hysteria and let their children just get measles they would not need the vaccine or boosters for the rest of their lives.

Measles immunity is passed on to offspring vaccinated resistance is not.

They used to have measles parties when I was a kid and no one died from it.

Oh and by the way. I should have stated that there have been no deaths from measles from people that contracted it. Sorry kind of rushing around this morning.

Measles causes serious brain damage to 1 children out of 1000 infected without necessarily causing death. It also weakens the immune system, which can lead to other infections like pneumonia.

well said wormfeeder ,your name reminded me of the video dedicated to Foolnobody and his followers below. But regardless my friend what either of us say it will not convince FoolNobody, he is a lost cause and no information is right unless he says its approved,lol

But regardless my friend what either of us say it will not convince FoolNobody, he is a lost cause and no information is right unless he says its approved,lol

Knowingly putting a child at risk for an infection outside of a controlled situation by doctors is negligence at best.

Most every kid I grew up with contracted measles not one of them suffered brain damage or died and that's in the hundreds of children.