Friday, August 08, 2014

Obama Spokesperson Marie Harf Says Iraqis "Have To Pull Themselves Together" And Stop Being Victims of Genocide

Like, It Just Totally Doesn't Fit The Fact Pattern ...

From Pajamas Media:
During today’s State Department press briefing, deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf addressed the unfolding crisis in Iraq. That crisis has many sources, but its chief source is ISIL. ISIL has taken hold of a large swath of northern Iraq and is killing anyone and everyone who gets in their way, or who refuses to bow to their take on Islam. 
Currently ISIL has about 40,000 men, women and children holed up on top of a mountain, starving them to death. A reporter asked if there is a “confrontation to stop” ISIL’s spread.  
Harf: “It’s not just a humanitarian crisis. I mean, that’s certainly a key piece of particularly what we’ve seen over the last 48 hours, certainly. But there’s a huge security challenge – if you talk about the Mosul dam, if you talk about other places. 
ISIL is a threat not just because they kill innocent civilians because of their religion, but because they’re a huge security threat to the stability of certain parts of Iraq. 
And that’s why throughout this conflict you have seen us continue to ramp up our support and continue to look very urgently at other things we could do to help fight this threat, because at the end of the day we can help the Iraqis, but the Iraqis also have to stand up, they have to pull themselves together, with our help, because this is a threat that certainly they but no one else in the region wants to see grow any more.”

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