Posted on 09/25/2018 2:52:13 AM PDT by granada
Throughout its second term, the Obama administration downplayed mounting evidence that Burma’s Rohingya community was being deliberately eradicated by the country’s military. Genocide was an inconvenient fact for an administration eager to claim a foreign-policy achievement in Burma’s democratic transition.
Nevertheless, in September 2016, President Obama welcomed Burma’s newly elected head of state Suu Kyi to the White House and honored her with an Oval Office meeting. The occasion was marked with a self-congratulatory joint announcement that omitted any mention of the Rohingya’s plight. That October, Obama lifted American economic sanctions against Burma, bestowing trade benefits, business loans, and educational exchanges on the country’s government.
Former president Obama can’t say he didn’t know. His own State Department’s reports described the atrocities. In his eagerness to build a foreign-policy legacy, he undervalued religious freedom. An administration that prided itself on concern about genocide and Islamophobia undermined both through its apparent contempt for religious freedom. It downplayed the repression of Rohingya Muslims in order to brandish Burma’s ostensible move toward a form of democracy — one that lacked essential freedoms for its large population of ethno-religious minorities — as a foreign-policy success.
In September, the Trump administration fast-tracked $32 million in fresh aid to a new wave of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and soon began applying Magnitsky Act sanctions against Burma’s military. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback visited Rohingya refugees in his first official trip, and recently dispatched investigators to collect evidence of genocide.
Even now, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo can still make a finding of genocide, and he should. It will strengthen survivor claims to compensation, restoration, and justice, while reiterating that America recognizes the central importance of religious freedom to the growth of emerging democracies abroad.
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NO THEY DON’T!!!
They can go back to Bangladesh!
The Globalists at the National Review want us to get ensnared in yet another foreign entanglement...protecting Muslims. Nah...I’ll pass.
[ The Globalists at the National Review want us to get ensnared in yet another foreign entanglement...protecting Muslims. Nah...I’ll pass. ]
Helping Muslims is basically inviting the camel to stick it’s nose under the tent flap.
If Bangladesh and Myanmar want to start a war over illegal aliens from Bangladesh invading Myanmar, we should just stand the hell back, and then buy popcorn and root for the Buddhists.
This is a GREAT example of why I don’t subscribe to or read NR any longer.
>>An administration that prided itself on concern about genocide and Islamophobia undermined both through its apparent contempt for religious freedom.
Can anyone make a case for religious freedom for a religious/political system that nowhere allows religious freedom where it holds political power? That is insanity, plain and simple.
No, we should be concerned about the genocide of Christians in the Middle East. We should be concerned about the impending massacre of whites in South Africa. And we should let Myanmar solve its own problems about illegal immigrant Muslims.
Oh really ?
Better call Mecca then.
I don't seem to rememeber sending aid (aka your taxes) to terrorist cults being mentioned at any of DJT's pre-election rallies.
Toxic, worthless, HOSTILE muslims want to take over another country.
Send Burma guns and more ammo.
Air drop as many Bibles as they need. Done.
Problems along Islam’s Bloody Borders.
The Muslims in Burma have been running a low grade insurgency thee for decades. Finally Burma has the upper hand in this struggle, and the Muslims are appealing for Western help.
I don’t think they will be able to sell this one.
Don’t start nuthin’, won’t be nuthin’.
(PS: You know you really suck when the Buddhists are kicking your ass!)
Why?
America has no compelling national interest here. It’s not our problem. One of the reasons we elected President Trump was to stop meddling in stupid, dirty, expensive and thankless conflicts around the world for things that were not our problem.
They are aggressive moslems, now being fought by the native population. They only look like victims to the outside world through clever marketing.
Perfect answer!! Give them the word of God and two weeks to make peace with the Lord. Then bomb them into kingdom come.
Unfortunately we cannot take their word that they got saved as moslems are commanded to lie. So we can only tell them what they need to know and then let God sort them out.
Absolutely NOT! Not just NO but HELL NO!!!
I guess they never heard the President tell the snake story.
My respect for Aung San Suu Kyi increases.
She once put her life on the line to save average Burmese people from a corrupt, thieving Chinese-sponsored dictatorship. Now she’s putting her reputation on the line to prevent them from a life-time of Islamic terrorism and globalist domination
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