Just when you think the Obama Administration couldn’t be any more naïve in the foreign policy area, they surprise you, and come up with something even stupider. Marie Harf, Obama State Department spokeswoman, espoused the ludicrous supposition that rather than fight ISIS, we should create a jobs program for them.
When even some liberal commentators (outside FOX, that’s virtually all of them) questioned this harebrained suggestion, Ms. Harf doubled down, claiming that her argument was too deep for her doubters to understand: “It might be too nuanced an argument for some…” No Ms. Harf, you’re just an idiot.
These ISIS barbarians already have jobs. Beheading, torturing, burning alive, and crucifying innocent Christians, Jews, and any moderate Muslims who get in their way.
The lands already under the control of ISIS or its affiliates (large swaths of Iraq and Syria, as well as pieces of Libya, Somalia, Nigeria, Yemen, Algeria, and others) have been declared part of the restoration of the Islamic Caliphate. The first caliphate was declared in 632 A.D. Sharia would be the only recognized law. Radical Islam the only religion. Of course in the spirit of peace, brotherhood and tolerance, people are given a choice – convert or die. The targets? Today the Middle East, tomorrow Europe, then the rest of the world (including, and especially, the United States of America.)
Back to the jobs program. And just where are these jobs supposed to come from? Maybe they could work at the mall. At Bath & Body Works. Or the Pottery Barn. Or the Sunglass Hut. Or Victoria’s Secret. Well, probably not Victoria’s Secret. There’s that whole burqa thing.
And besides, it may not be safe for the poor Jihadists to work at a mall anyway. Several days ago, Al Shabaab, the Islamic terrorist group that attacked a mall in Nairobi, Kenya in 2013, killing more than 60 innocent shoppers, released a video threatening to target the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, as well as malls in Canada and Great Britain.
Of course, outside FOX News and talk radio, the Obama Administration’s embarrassing jobs proposal got scant coverage. They were too busy participating in the feeding frenzy of criticism of Rudy Giuliani, who had questioned Barack Obama’s love of America. (While at the same time virtually ignoring Vice President Biden’s inappropriate groping of our new Defense Secretary’s wife, after he had recently creepily attempted to clumsily kiss the 13-year-old daughter of a United States Senator. But that’s just Joe being Joe.)
And speaking of teenage school girls, three British girls, ages 15, 15, and 16 have run away from their families, caught a flight to Turkey, and as of this writing, are believed to be heading to Syria, apparently to join ISIS. How any girl in her right mind would want to join this misogynist group, when you consider where women rate in their scheme of things, is beyond me. But a lot of young people (both male and female) from all around the world are attempting to do just that. And I don’t believe a jobs program, whether shovel-ready or not, will have much effect on this phenomena.
Finally, one last criticism of Obama foreign policy, not because I’ve run out of examples, but because I’ve run out of time and space. Why in the world would the Obama Administration announce that it intends to begin a military operation to take back ISIS-controlled Mosul, two months from now? Military strategy 101 tells you that you use the element of surprise to your advantage. Don’t let your enemy know what you’re going to do, where you’re going to do it, and when you’re going to do it. Surprise keeps your enemy off guard, and it reduces casualties on your side.
So why did Obama do it? I believe to fend off criticism that he’s not doing enough to defeat ISIS. (And he’s not.) Unfortunately, our men and women in uniform will pay the price for his recklessness. But what else is new?
I used to think that Jimmy Carter was the worst foreign policy President this nation has ever seen. I don’t anymore.
