Fox host suggests Chicago adopt US military strategy in Iraq to curb violence

Jesse Watters: “Remember what happened with the surge in Iraq ... Chicago needs the same thing”

From the August 4 edition of Fox News' The Five:

Video file

JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): I think Chicago is another swamp that needs to be drained. Rahm Emanuel has been the mayor for quite some time. and he's tolerating a lot of shootings.

And if I was the NAACP, I would knock on the mayor's office and say, “How much black-on-black crime are you guys going to tolerate?” If these were white people shooting each other, would the program still be the same? He came out with the program to fix this a couple years ago and the murder rate went up. So, obviously what he is doing is not working. 

Remember what happened with the surge in Iraq where they went block to block and they invested heavily on boots on the ground, clear/hold [strategy], and they brought in the local population to really turn the tables. And it worked. Now Chicago needs the same thing. 

Previously:

Fox's Gutfeld: “Do we really need to push for an increase in diversity anymore?”

Fox's Gutfeld: Racial quotas “Introduces suspicion among your peers, that you really didn't earn the job”

Fox's Gutfeld: Obama was nominated because “Historical black beats historical white” woman

Fox's Gutfeld: Democratic policies have “infantilized” African-Americans and “made them addicted to crappy programs”