Wednesday 18 February 2015

Why is this stupid, insipid, ignorant cartoon liberal the US State Department's deputy spokesperson?


For UK readers, Chris Matthews - the man asking the questions - is a screaming liberal-leftist who, until recently, was Obama's biggest fan: anyone daring to criticise the Prez was dismissed as a racist. But even someone as deluded as Matthews can see through the student radical whitterings of his 33-year old airhead guest.

What's terrifying is that she was formerly the media spokesman for the Central Intelligence Agency, having previously been an agency analyst "focussing on Middle Eastern leadership issues." No wonder US Middle East policy is such an unholy mess. 

If you're wondering how Ms. Harf got her current job, she worked on Obama's 2012 campaign, helping to craft his national security and communications strategy. Which also explains a lot.

Ever since FDR and his disastrous New Deal, which did so much to retard America's economic revival in the 1930s, the liberal-left has been absolutely obsessed with the ridiculous idea that youth job creation programmes are the answer to just about every economic problem (over here, Ed Miliband spent yesterday droning on about pie-in-the-sky apprenticeship schemes). But imagining that a sort of global version of what doesn't work in the West would stop young Muslims flocking to the ISIS banner is... well, it's deranged. While killing lots of Islamist barbarians might not win the war against ISIS, it would certainly be a start. Because, you see, Marie, it's sort of easier to win against dead    fighters than it is to defeat the ones who are still alive and firing back. Even Chris Matthews can grasp that point!

If there are many more people like Marie Harf in the State Department, the free world is doomed. Doomed!


11 comments:

  1. Every time I see her...it confirms my suspicion that there's just no point in paying attention any more.

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    1. "Every time I see her" - you mean they've actually allowed her to do TV interviews before? Good grief! I presume she counts as a civil servant, and will therefore get booted out if the Republicans win the next election. On the other hand, if Hillary wins, I presume Ms. Harf will be appointed as head of the CIA - "Gee, I mean it's not as if we'd learn anything by spying on our enemies. Besides, spying is, like, really right-wing, yeah, and if people feel enmity towards us, who could blame them? It's probably our fault."

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    2. Part of me loves the idea...having a Valley Girl Barbie take these woman hating head cutters out. Marie is not that girl. I wouldn't put her in charge of finding the kid that scribbled a penis on the bathroom wall.

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    3. She'd probably refuse anyway, on the grounds that it would violate the little darling's need to express himself.

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    4. Blogmeister:
      "Every time I see her" - you mean they've actually allowed her to do TV interviews before? Good grief!

      Ms Harf is an expert not only on nation-building but also on cybersecurity.

      Bloomberg record her as pronouncing: "We have robust security to protect our systems and our information, and we deal successfully with thousands of attacks every day".

      This is in response to the apparently ineradicable infection of the State Department's (non-classified) email system.

      Despite the robust security protecting their systems and despite successfully dealing with thousands of attacks every day it seems that three months after it started they just can't get rid of the infiltrators.

      "Every time sysadmins find and delete a malware infection, installed by the hackers, another variant pops up", they tell us in ElReg, "remote access to email inboxes has been disabled".

      So now the US has a State Department which, with the assistance of the NSA and Ms Barf, can no longer do safe remote communications.

      No prizes for guessing Ms Barf's final offering on the subject: “We take any possible cyber intrusion very seriously”.

      If anybody offers you a "secure" website or "secure" telecommunications, just ask them how well things are going, round at the State Department. And remember Sony. And all the others.

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    5. Excellent! "We take x seriously" is one of those wonderful non-answer answers that roughly translates as "x caught us with our pants down and we're now running around in a sweat panic because we don't have a clue what to do about it" much as "We will learn lessons going forwards" means "We will make the same mistake again as soon as the opportunity arises".

      I suggest we get on the right of history and start a "Marie Harf for President" campaign pronto.

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  2. I am not sure that the policy which she is articulating - I know, it's stretching definitions a bit - is that different from the UK's own. It's part of the same menu of myths and false assumptions on which much of Western foreign policy is based. The aspiration of every one in the world is to live in a liberal democracy; Western values are universally transferable; any popular movement to topple an unjust regime leads to change for the better; getting rid of dictatorships is a moral imperative; the consequences of an intervention are less important than the justness of the cause; if you invest in the emerging economies, they will thank you for it; there is a commonality of interest within the international community which transcends the national perspective. Those are the policies that gave is the self- delusional wishful thinking of the Arab Spring and ultimately led to the ungovernable chaos that is Libya and Iraq today.
    Well done Tone n' Dave, not forgetting the mad Bloke in between.

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    1. I used to take a distinctly neocon attitude to speading democracy around the globe asap (brilliant aspiration - just disatrous in practice, mainly because it fails to take into account the fact that where tribalism is entrenched - i.e. most of the world - you end up with a dictatorship of the majority, which invariably proceeds to make sure it remains the majority in perpetuity by attempting to enslave or murder the minority). Reading your comments made my cheeks flame with guilt at my former naivety.

      The mad bloke in between chose instead to enslave us all through the medium of debt.

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    2. Ex-KCS:

      • the aspiration of every one in the world is to live in a liberal democracy
      • Western values are universally transferable
      • any popular movement to topple an unjust regime leads to change for the better
      • getting rid of dictatorships is a moral imperative
      • the consequences of an intervention are less important than the justness of the cause
      • if you invest in the emerging economies, they will thank you for it
      • there is a commonality of interest within the international community which transcends the national perspective

      Inspired, Sir.

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    3. You know these three girls from Tower Hamlets who've run away to Syria? It's a mistake of theirs. Obviously.

      Why do people make mistakes? Because they've been failed.

      And who has failed these three girls? The UK security services.

      That's what it says on the home page of the Times newspaper website at the moment. So presumably it's true:

      The family of a British jihadist bride feared to have helped to lure three runaway schoolgirls to join Islamic State in Syria have said that the trio were “failed” by UK security services.

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    4. I hope you're not suggesting that it isn't the responsibility of the state to raise our children and watch over them 24 hours a day in order to prevent them from doing anything stupid.

      But never fear - heads will roll! Well, they will if ISIS have anything to do with it.

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