Rev. Jim Wallis, Sojourners CEO and a White House spiritual adviser, appeared on The Bill Press Show Monday morning to discuss the crisis in the Middle East over the Islamist State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Wallis had earlier written an op-ed for the Huffington Post entitled ‘War Is Not The Answer‘ opposing the use of military force to defeat the jihadist group. But Wallis took the anti-war and anti-oil themes of that piece to the extreme in his interview, arguing that the blame for ISIS lay with America and that prominent conservatives wanted to invade and occupy every country in the world.
Wallis told host Bill Press that before discussing how to deal with ISIS, the important question was why ISIS was drawing so many recruits to begin with. He said that the Middle East was full of uneducated young people who were “responding to real grievances. What are the real grievances? The oil economy.”
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