France says it will take 30,000 Syrian refugees, while U.S. Republicans would turn them away
1. The majority United States citizens, contrary to what President Obama says, are NOT saying reject them forever. They are saying that we should pause and take a look at the vetting process to make certain the citizens will be assured a measure of safety. With all the mixed messages that are coming from the President's own people, it is only reasonable for people to be concerned. To chastise us like we are ignorant children only escalates that feeling they do not know what they (the leaders) are doing.
2. President Obama has been leading us to this point. It is his public ridicule of his own citizens, his international and public show of disdain for the democratic processes, as well as his petulant handling of opposition to his policies that has brought the public to their current concerns regarding the refugees.
I applaud the leader of France for his decisive action in striking back. His leadership has been quite the example. And the people of France are showing a remarkable resilience. They have a strong national pride that we, in the United States, have been told for years is wrong.
To be a proud American has been ridiculed as an outdated belief. Our Constitution and all we hold dear has been trashed and leadership has promoted a hatred between law enforcement and citizens. And yet people seem surprised that the logical conclusion is a growing isolationist attitude.
And who has arisen as the world's leader? Putin. The French looked for leadership and has found it in Russia, not the United States.
We let terrorists go and repatriate them so they can attack again. France hunts them down and eliminates them. We cannot even use the word "kill."
Yes, we are concerned. We are scared. I say to President Obama, "What do you expect?"
We have people arrested in Texas, Syrians detained in Honduras happily making their way to the United States with phony Greek passports, airline flights disrupted, an unknown person trying to board a Jet Blue flight in Los Angeles bound for New York, and who only knows what else. And leadership is vacuous in their answers, blaming the citizens for their lack of confidence in the feckless leadership that is intent upon leaving a legacy instead of protecting the people he supposedly wanted to govern. The Tsarnov brothers were refugees. The 9/11/2001 terrorists learned to fly at United States schools. There are too many examples of how we have reached out, educated, fed, and clothed people who turned out to simply be using the system to find out how to best destroy us.
The author of the article is a prime example of those who come from outside of the United States and actually fail to understand that we are a democratic republic and not a pure democracy which in essence is simply, mob rule.
The following was a quote from time.com/author/ishaan-tharoor/
Ishaan Tharoor. Ishaan is a Senior Editor at TIME magazine and Editor of TIME World, based in New York City. A New Yorker (by upbringing) and an Indian (by passport), he joined TIME's Asia headquarters in Hong Kong after graduating from Yale in 2006.The following is a quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shashi_Tharoor
Tharoor's father, Sashi Tharoor, was an important man in India. In April 2010, he resigned from the position, following allegations that he had misused his office to get shares in the IPL cricket franchise. Tharoor denied the charges and, during his resignation speech in Parliament, called for a full inquiry. In a 2014 rejoinder he defended his position: "I was never involved in a scam of any sort in the IPL- I was brought down because...[I had] antagonised some powerful political cricketing interests" and added that he had "cooperated extensively with the detailed investigation conducted by the Enforcement Directorate into the entire issue", and no wrongdoing had been found.[citation needed]
I, for one, wish the President had gone golfing instead of attending the G20 conference, or maybe just taken a nap instead of vilifying his own people.
One more thing. French President Hollande, if you have a better way to vet these refugees, please share that with us.
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