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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They want as much free sh*t as they can take.
Have you ever noticed that no matter what happens in the world, it is always Obama that suffers the most from it according to the media.
Picking the worst blot on this presidency is like picking our a rust spot on a car that’s been totalled in a severe accident.
Don’t worry, the media will make someone else, not Obama, the person to blame. Thirty years from now the history textbooks will say the chaos in Syria was a consequence of George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq.
Glad we had the big fat red line in the Syrian sand.
Really? What about Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Libya? Not to mention giving Iran the bomb and a ton of money. He’s lucky the Egyptian military saved his butt there or it would be on the list too.
Over 70% of these “refugees” are military age males.
It’s not a nightmare to him. He planned it along with all the other Arab Springs....
>> They want their children to live.
Seriously? Then why do so damn few of the “refugees” actually consist of children?
They want their children to live so they can become suicide bombers later.
Actually, Obama could care less. He is really enjoying his golf outings with celebrities who want to be his friend. It is, in his mind, not his fault.
Really? What's your source?
Obama’s Syria
a debacle of staggering proportions.
——four million Syrians are refugees——
None of which have health insurance.
I would argue they are not so much seeking security as fearing another winter in the cold and hungry camps. Winter kills just as surely as saimed or stray bullets
There have been multiple European media accounts citing these numbers. Just do a google search. The photos seem to corroborate these reports.
It just doesn't matter anymore how bad Iran is, Syria is, the muslim in chiefs brotherhood is...
The disgrace and shame that this administration and our Senate and House did to America yesterday will never be forgiven nor forgotten...
All of those that pushed for and voted for this will have blood on their hands and will never see the good life of an individual anymore, when they look at a mom and dad and family, their thoughts will be: ‘I hope I didn't kill them’ or when you see a grandparent with a grandchild, I hope their thoughts will be “that kids won't have the life I had, or the opportunities’ nope, they sailed us down the river for life and all eternity this time...
Yes, that the truth:
From The Migrants and the Elites by Peggy Noonan:
"According to the U.N. refugee agency, 53% of the migrants are from Syria, 14% from Afghanistan, 7% from Eritrea, and 3% each from Pakistan, Nigeria, Iraq and Somalia. Seventy-two percent are men, only 13% women and 15% children. Not all are fleeing war. Some are fleeing poverty. Not all but the majority are Muslim."
This "refugee" crisis was started by ISIS and they stated flat out back in February that they would blend their fighters in with legitimate refugees.
ISIS threatens to send 500,000 migrants to Europe
No way should we open ourselves up for this invasion!
I don’t know how we can figure out which one of Obama’s policies was the worst; we could discuss this all night. I’m inclined to agree with you, though.
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