Posted on 11/18/2015 10:05:12 AM PST by bkopto
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday (in a room with a governor who said he'd refuse refugees) that she understood the concerns over the security risks, but that the United States needed to accept refugees, as reported by AL.com.
Rice made the remarks at the 38th annual Southeast U.S.-Japan conference, in Birmingham, Alabama, according to the publication.
Among those in attendance was Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley (R) who had released a statement Sunday that said he would not "stand complicit to a policy that places the citizens of Alabama in harm's way." He was one of 13 governors to release statements to that effect.
Rice acknowledged Bentley at the conference, but said the country needs to be "open and welcoming" to refugees.
"I fundamentally understand that you in a position of authority, like you, governor and others, in addition to having compassion for others, you have to be safety conscious for your people," Rice said, nodding at Bentley. "What the United States has done is to be open to people who are fleeing tyranny, who are fleeing danger, but we have done it in a very careful way that has worked for us."
She’s a weirdo. Over educated an no common sense. Always was
Saw her recently on a 911 documentary. She was just weird about it. Her story of the day
We like these people for office because of what we hope they’ll be. We need trump Cruz now because they’re stepping up. They see the mess. And they should get in. The Clinton’s are busy rigging it so they’ll be hard to beat surprisingly
Jeb and the bushes if they had any sense would be spending what must be piles of cash not on Jeb but on the GOP winner who will fix this mess. If they can’t see what’s going on like condi here they’re dopes. But they can they see it. I’m a working mother not even in politics and I can see it
She Was sec of state Where is she on critic inch Bert the muppet and his defense of Isis killing hebdoe?
The bushes. Their loyalties are so obvious
With regard to Condi, part of that is an occupational hazard. Serving as National Security Adviser and then Secretary of State will force the office holder to an internationalist focus even if they aren't innately so inclined (John Bolton comes to mind). But here I think she's making a couple of assumptions that aren't warranted.
First, yes, the U.S. is signator to a number of international agreements concerning refugee aid. That does not mean transporting those refugees halfway across the world for resituation. It does mean funding support and taking supplies to them wherever they find sanctuary, presumably within walking distance of the trouble zone. Air fare and a permanent new home are NOT a part of the deal.
Nations do not take on moral obligations. Nations are not the repository of moral codes, individual citizens are. Nations commit to action under stated conditions. Nowhere in this is "we are morally obligated to do something about X". From the standpoint of national policy that is impossible. If Condi wants to take on a Syrian boarder, that's fine, but she is not empowered to commit the rest of us to do so, not even as Secretary of State.
Actually, we don't.
Condi was once liked, but found to be too close to her party for any continued support or favor-ability. PS: it was thought she had a brilliant mind. To find it resembles the mind of our oo resident is something of a shock.
how about taking care of our homeless and vets first , before we bring more people/illegals in on welfare etc.
He’s no RINO, but he certainly doesn’t have the background, as a one-term congressman and middle-manager in the military, to be a VP nominee as so many here have espoused over the years.
None of them have the background, or if they were white would begin to be considered, for the presidency or vice presidency. But because they are black, too many Freepers are keen to promote them beyond reasonability to one of those levels.
Bye, bye, Secretary Rice...you finally confirmed suspicions of many years...so distressing!
seek to stay as close to home as possible to wait for the war to end.
are mostly women, children, the elderly, and the infirm
are appreciative, polite, and accept anything given
only want to stay temporarily, and hope for that time to be a short as possible.
do not protest, fight, or intentionally bypass police blocks.
The people at issue here follow none of these
You think School Teacher Lyndon Johnson or Hat salesman Harry Truman had the background?
Allen West was an officer in our armed forces and saw combat. He said that he would go through hell with a gasoline can for his men. That's as good a qualification as they come in my opinion.
Why? What are these people bringing to America that will make America a better place?
Truman spent a decade in the US Senate and almost a decade as county judge before that.
LBJ spent a dozen years each in the US House and Senate, including serving up through Senate Majority Leader, before being elected VP.
Allen West hasn’t got a flicker of the qualifications and experience that Truman or LBJ had. You only ever heard of West because he was elected as a black Republican—once— to the House.
LBJ spent a dozen years each in the US House and Senate, including serving up through Senate Majority Leader, before being elected VP.
I don't consider any amount of time in the House or Senate to be a good qualification for the Presidency. Governor of a State, yes, but Congress? Not at all.
Senate and House are better than nothing, but I consider the leadership of men in Battle to be a very good qualification for the office.
You only ever heard of West because he was elected as a black Republican-once- to the House.
I heard of West long before he was elected to anything. My first knowledge of Allen West was when he was brought up on charges for firing his gun next to a captured insurgent's ear, to scare him into telling our soldiers about insurgent activities.
Allen West was not even slightly ashamed of what he did. When asked to explain himself, Allen West said " I would go through hell with a gasoline can for my men."
I said at the time, "I like that man. That is the kind of man that needs to be leading our country." He said this while he was still in the military, and before any hint of politics had been mentioned regarding him.
Years later he got elected to the house, and immediately the GOPe cronies redistricted him into a dominant Democrat district.
They deliberately screwed him over because they didn't like how unwilling to compromise he was. He was another one of those conservatives upon whom they have declared war.
Time will always expose these traitors. I liked her—no more.
My question for this would be simple. “Why? Why not settle them in a middle eastern country where they’ll fit in with the other seventh century barbarians.”
She also didn't say why the US should/must accept these refugees, who are made up overwhelmingly of young, strong men of military age (photo evidence) who have reportedly been throwing women and children into the sea once their refugee boats are out of sight of land (hence the photo of the young girl's corpse on a beach in Turkey).
Condi needs to acknowledge that there is something Not Right here, especially in view of such anecdotal (pl: "data") evidence and in view of statements by jihadi organizations that they intended to use refugee streams to infiltrate masses of their operators into the West.
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“Sounds just like Yeb Bush.”
I’m shocked!
Ah, you’re better than that. I don’t have any children, neither does Rush, as well as a lot of seriously concerned people.
She is a RINOe Bushie, trying to prop up Jeb, displaying the reason why the GOPe is getting bloodied in the polls.
Not condemning all who do not have children, but it might be true in individual cases.
However, It may be a fair question. My mindset changed dramatically when I had children. I become less of a risk-taker and I became more conservative.
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