Obama's ISIS Strategy Is Even Worse than You Think

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. He is completing a book on the international challenges America faces in the 21st century.  His biweekly column appears at Front Page Magazine and his blog articles regularly appear at Family Security Matters, the Jewish Press, Times of Israel, Act for America and Right Side News, as well as daily at the Canada Free Press and a number of other outlets.

‘We cannot win this war by killing them’, Marie Harf said on MSNBC. Reversing thousands of years of battlefield experience in which wars were won by ‘killing them,’ the State Department spokeswoman argued that you can't defeat ISIS by killing its fighters. ‘We cannot kill our way out of this war,’ she said. ‘We need in the medium and longer term to go after the root causes that lead people to join these groups, whether it is lack of opportunity for jobs . . .’

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