WHAT ABOUT THE IMAGES OF THE COPTIC CHRISTIANS BEING BLOWN UP TO SMITHEREENS???
WHAT ABOUT THE IMAGES OF THE COPTIC CHRISTIANS BEING BLOWN UP TO SMITHEREENS???
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Oh. Them. They don’t matter. Judicial crucifixions and decapitations by our close, great, splendid Saudi allies don’t matter either.
Moral outrage is easy if you treat it like a buffet.
bttt
Foreign policy based on emotions. That’s just wonderful.
As tragic as the plight of Christians in the Middle East obviously is, there is clearly a significant worldwide aversion to the use of chemical or biological weapons by Tyrants. There are international agreements which must be enforced, and that leadership role automatically falls to the United States.
If people want to have protecting Christians worldwide become an aspect of US foreign policy, then they should make that case to the Congress and President. I, myself, sympathize with such a goal.
There's no doubt that Christians are being exterminated in many places in the Middle East, almost in the way that the Nazis exterminated Jews.
This should be a cause that the entire world embraces—but doing so would certainly involve a lot more "intervention".
Obama scolded Assad for using chemical weapons. President Trump punished Assad for using chemical weapons. I have a hard time believing that nothing should have been done.
There were clearly US interests involved, if nothing more than the fact that we have our own assets in Syria which are vulnerable to chemical attacks, and also the fact that such attacks tend to exacerbate refugee problems.
I don't know whether these proposed "safe zones" are something which can be practically established or not, but they sound like a decent idea.
I don't think there's a compelling case to be made for putting a lot of US boots on the ground in Syria, however...
Don't show Ivanka!
We're spread thin enough.
Man, I just had vision of my own daughter, if she were to ask me to do something, for the babies and, I could.
Now, I am believing this.