Posted on 03/20/2024 4:19:19 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
Nobody, to my knowledge, has ever accused Rep. Ilhan Omar of being a nationalist. But if her recently surfaced comments about Somalia are any indication, she is, in fact, an ardent one — just not for the nation of America.
A few months ago, controversy broke out surrounding comments Omar made during a speech about Somalia (delivered to a predominantly Somalian crowd in Minneapolis): “We are people of brotherhood, people of blood, people who know themselves to be Somalis, to be Muslims,” Omar thundered, according to the English-translation subtitles. “We are a gifted set of individuals with a patriotic spirit that acknowledges our homeland and strives to protect it.” In a shockingly candid admission, Omar openly bragged to the crowd about her ambition to serve the interests of a foreign nation while ostensibly representing American voters in the U.S. government: “The U.S. government will do what we tell the U.S. government to do,” she boasted. “That is the confidence we need to have as Somalis.… For as long as I am in Congress, no one will take over the seas belonging to the nation of Somalia and the United States will not support others who seek to steal from us.”
“Us,” of course, did not refer to the United States. No serious observer of politics could ever imagine the congresswoman describing America in such terms.
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US foreign aid tax dollars to Somalia is approximately $3 billion.
Overall, U.S. security assistance tax dollars to Somalia and to its peacekeeping operations
amounts to approximately $3 billion tax dollars over the last decade.
Somalia is among the most significant recipients of
US security aid tax dollars in sub-Saharan Africa.
(Noted Mar 20, 2023)
thanks to collectivism, and Marxism, the melting pot ideal, once a beacon of hope and unity, has been replaced by a society that thrives on division and exclusion, and group warfare.
There is no melting, they coagulate.
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Possible.....very possible.
The melting pot cooled off and solidified long ago. This country is now The Balkanized States of America.
For as long as I am in Congress, no one will take over the seas belonging to the nation of Somalia and the United States will not support others who seek to steal from us.”
There has been some talk of Somaliland granting a port to Ethiopia in exchange for recognition and, of course, money. Somalia (and Omar) are not happy about this.
In the 70s, my college History prof said it isn’t a melting pot but a tossed salad.
THAT b*&ch wouldn’t melt in ANY pot
Putting turds in a punchbowl is not like putting ice in it. Ice melts and enhances the drink. Turds do not. They pollute and make it completely undrinkable.
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