Terrific piece by @wrmead on President Obama's cynical posturing on the Syrian crisis. Absolutely devastating.
https://t.co/E9Gym5EgYU
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) November 19, 2015"One of the most cynical, cold-blooded, and nastily divisive moves an American President has made" https://t.co/tty65mwdVD #tcot
— Doug Ross (@directorblue) November 19, 2015...To see the full cynicism of the Obama approach to the refugee issue, one has only to ask President Obama’s least favorite question: Why is there a Syrian refugee crisis in the first place?
Obama’s own policy decisions—allowing Assad to convert peaceful demonstrations into an increasingly ugly civil war, refusing to declare safe havens and no fly zones—were instrumental in creating the Syrian refugee crisis. This crisis is in large part the direct consequence of President Obama’s decision to stand aside and watch Syria burn. For him to try and use a derisory and symbolic program to allow 10,000 refugees into the United States in order to posture as more caring than those evil Jacksonian rednecks out in the benighted sticks is one of the most cynical, cold-blooded, and nastily divisive moves an American President has made in a long time.
I am in favour of taking refugees, but this evisceration of Obama's hypocrisy and moral cowardice is unanswerable. https://t.co/mXpDZ7yq2y
— James Snell (@James_P_Snell) November 19, 2015
