Just Hours After Obama Taunts GOP About ‘Widows’ Among Syrian Refugees, This
SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images President Barack Obama used the term while speaking at the G20 summit. He wrote, “A country that can not control its borders is not a country”. And as President, my first priority is the safety of the American people.
Republican leadership, including over thirty governors, are pushing back against the president’s plan to host refugees, after one jihadist attacker involved in the attacks against Paris on Friday was found to have smuggled himself into Europe through a refugee entry point in Greece. O’Reilly said. “We discussed a myriad of reasons last night, but here’s the one that makes the most sense: Mr. Obama does not have the will to lead in the War on Terror. We can and must do both”.
President Obama’s call for nations, including the United States, to welcome refugees has caused a rift in within his own country.
Apparently, in this administration’s assessment, the “actual threats” did not include Islamic State attacks in the West. In August 2014, deputy national security adviser Tony Blinken declared that “Unlike core al-Qaida, right now, their focus is not on attacking the USA homeland or attacking our interests here in the United States or overseas”.
Presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders(I-VT) agrees with President Obama’s stance on accepting more refugees. During an interview with PBS News Hour with Gwen Ifill he implied that turning away Syrian refugees is unAmerican.
Dent also joined others in Congress, including Rep. Ryan Costello, who also represents parts of Lebanon County, in calling for a temporary halt in allowing Syrian refugees into the country to review the refugee screening process.
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, rejected President Obama’s assertion that ISIS is “contained” – adding, that “they are on a march.” Sen. Indeed, its leaders use a wide range of social media for recruitment purposes, including Twitter and Facebook.
Following a series of deadly terror attacks, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres has stressed that “asylum and terrorism are not compatible with each other”.
President Obama has not offered an opinion on Anon’s activities, and he likely won’t due to the group’s history of less-than-legal activities.
How many times is this sad spectacle going to repeat itself? They are totally indoctrinated, clinging to all manner of conspiracy theories, never acknowledging the contradictions. Ben Carson called for “boots on the ground”, while Donald Trump swore he’d “bomb the s- out of” ISIS-controlled oil fields and hand them over to ExxonMobil.
Central to their world view is the belief that communities can not live together with Muslims, and every day their antennae will be tuned towards finding supporting evidence. “They have just slaughtered 129 people in Paris”. Cohesion, tolerance – is is not what they want to see.
The line kept coming to mind as I listened to President Obama’s remarkable news conference Monday from the G-20 meeting in Turkey.
“And this attack in Paris demonstrates the validity of that concern”. One by one, Obama raised the various policy alternatives presented by his critics-from creating a no-fly zone in Syria to sending in ground forces-and explained why he’s rejected them.
“…So long as his regime is in place, ISIL can not be eradicated”. ISIL seeks to exploit the idea that there’s war between Islam and the West, and when you start seeing individuals in positions of responsibility suggesting Christians are more worthy of protection than Muslims are in a war-torn land that feeds the ISIL narrative.
When we had our 9/11, we watched the world rally around us. I know how that sounds.