or: am I the only one who is laughing?
Obama is doing photo ops with a selfie-stick and a camera while Americans and our allies are being murdered by ISIS with impunity. They refuse to even acknowledge any of these attacks are terrorism (calling the attacks in Denmark random violence), even denying that Christians were singled out in Libya.
It's true ISIS is murdering people of all faiths, no doubt about that, but their level of denial about what is going on has officially become funny IMO. High comedy.
Now the State Department spokesperson, who looks like she's a college sophomore and just about as worldly and wise, suggests we can't "kill our way" out of this, and need to attack the "root causes", by working to make sure those people have access to jobs.
Now, before you fall over laughing, there is a fair point in that comment. there is no doubt that economic despair is a root cause of radical movements, it certainly was in the 1920s and 30s, and it is no doubt a major factor in the current radical Islamist movement.
BUT, there is a point at which that horse is out of the barn. Had we been able to rebuild the German economy BEFORE the communists and Nazis became the two main parties then yes that may have worked, but at the point at which the Nazis are marching into Poland it's too late for a job fair.
Secondly, it's not clear how you build a vibrant economy in Libya, a nation that has descended into tribal warfare, in a few months and head off the ISIS buildup. In fact it's totally clear: you can't. It's a nonsensical Leftist ivory tower pipe dream that only makes sense if you propose it in a classroom or at a cocktail party, then go home and think about how enlightened and insightful you have been.
So that solution is, as they say, a day late and a dollar short. total nonsense at this point.
You have to laugh. ISIS marches 20 people down to the beach and beheads them, today burns 45 more in a town FIVE MILES from a Marine outpost in Iraq, the President of Egypt and King of Jordan have publicly BEGGED the US to take the lead in fighting this filth, and our response is to talk about jobs in places that are essentially subsistence economies at this point.
Forget air strikes. We need to be dropping DVDs on how to learn welding apparently.
Come on, it's funny. Could Nero really have been any more outrageous as Emperor, any more inept, than King Obama the First? I wasn't there, but I bet the similarities would be striking.
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