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Obama's Syrian Nightmare
NYT ^ | 10 Sep 15 | Roger Cohen

Posted on 09/11/2015 6:20:18 AM PDT by elhombrelibre

Roger Cohen

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Syria will be the biggest blot on the Obama presidency, a debacle of staggering proportions. For more than four years now, the war has festered. A country has been destroyed, four million Syrians are refugees, Islamic State has moved into the vacuum and President Bashar al-Assad still drops barrel bombs whose shrapnel and chlorine rip women and children to shreds.

For a long time, those who fled waited in the neighborhood. They wanted to go home. They filled camps in Turkey and Jordan and Lebanon. When it became clear even to them that “home” no longer existed, nothing could stop them in their desperate flight toward the perceived security of Europe. The refugee crisis is the chronicle of a disaster foretold.

The refugees do not care what “Christian” Europe thinks. They are beyond caring about Europe’s hang-ups or illusions. They want their children to live. In their homeland, more than 200,000 people have been killed. Statistics numb, but less so when you know the dead. This evisceration of a state is a consequence of many things, among them Western inaction.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: assad; obamalegacy; obamasyria; syriarefugees; syriawar
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To: ilovesarah2012
They want their children to live so they can become suicide bombers later.

The should only be admitted if they will renounce Islam. It is the reason they are in their plight. We don't need that here.

21 posted on 09/11/2015 7:52:03 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Let him who pays no taxes, also not vote!)
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To: elhombrelibre

Here is a FACTUAL REFUTATION of obozo’s UNRESTRAINED “REFUGEE” IMMIGRANT U.S. “RESETTLEMENT” PROGRAM.

https://www.youtube.comwatch?v=LPjzfGChGlE

The “progressive” left — which either ignores or cannot deal with facts — grasps this one quite well as it is integral to their plan to take complete control of the political system here.  The vast proportion of these “immigrants” will immediately take advantage of the comfy welfare “hammock”  the left has put in place, often AHEAD of indigenous citizens.

These new welfare recipients will — once the left does away with voter ID — develop a warm/fuzzy feeling for and become supporters of the Democrats.   When the system finally collapses under the burden (Cloward-Piven), the ensuing unrest and turmoil will soon have all of the poor, most of the now devastated middle class and much of the very wealthy leftists who created and will be orchestrating the mess demanding that someone RESTORE ORDER!  And ORDER we shall have.  But it will NOT be the sort most older citizens would recognize. The exceptions would be those from Germany, Soviet Russia under Stalin, Cuba under Castro...you get the idea!


22 posted on 09/11/2015 8:02:13 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: rochester_veteran
This stinking piece of crap that's defiling our Oval Office is importing the Radical Islamists that will kill us.
When will congress get the guts tho IMPEACH, CONVICT and EXECUTE that ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF ?
23 posted on 09/11/2015 8:03:32 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Yosemitest

I hear you, Yosemitest!


24 posted on 09/11/2015 9:00:04 AM PDT by rochester_veteran (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: elhombrelibre

Not a nightmare for Obama, it is for the rest of us.


25 posted on 09/11/2015 9:00:34 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: elhombrelibre

Except that it would appear they’re largely leaving their wives and children behind.


26 posted on 09/11/2015 9:01:52 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: bert

Have you seen the refugees?

None of them look hungry.

Lots of them look like these:

http://www.barenakedislam.com/2015/09/10/barack-hussein-obama-has-ordered-his-regime-to-take-in-at-least-10000-syrian-muslims-in-the-next-fiscal-year/

Scroll for pics of all the ‘hungry starving’ ‘refugees’.


27 posted on 09/11/2015 9:04:49 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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