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L. Todd Wood, Western Journalism — In March of this year, President Obama traveled to Saudi Arabia to meet with Saudi King Abdullah. The purpose of the visit was to reassure the kingdom that the United States still values them as an ally, as American policy had shifted noticeably against Saudi Arabia–and the king was unhappy. From American refusal to arm the rebels fighting the Assad regime to the apparent appeasement of Iran, Saudi Arabia’s views were going unheard. The kingdom showed its displeasure by refusing a seat on the U.N. Security Council, which hurt American ability to impact decision-making in that body.Before the trip, seventy members of the United States Congress signed a letter to the president requesting he bring up with the king the issue of Christian persecution in the Middle East. Christianity is illegal in Saudi Arabia. The president chose not to broach the subject. When asked why, the White House spokesman said the president did not have time during the trip. In fact, our Dear Leader has not shown a willingness to use his bully pulpit to speak out about the ethnic cleansing happening every day across the Middle East by fundamentalist Muslim jihadists. This lack of apparent interest begs the question: why?
We all know that President Obama claimed that he converted to Christianity prior to running for president of the United States. We have also heard the sermons of Reverend Wright that the president listened to frequently while attending church in Chicago. The God Damn America comment was widely played during the 2008 election. I have said many times that it’s not what Obama says that matters; it’s the result and consequences of his actions. In this case with Christianity, I believe he doesn’t speak out against Christian persecution because he just doesn’t care.
We now have the Islamic State in the Middle East giving an ultimatum to Christians in Iraq and elsewhere to leave within seventy-two hours or be persecuted or worse. These people have lost their homes and everything they owned–and have been literally thrown out into the desert. We have Boko Haram committing genocide in Africa and killing Christians routinely, men, women, and children alike. There are Christians being stoned, burned alive, and even crucified across Africa and the Middle East.
Where is President Obama on the issue? Where is the press conference expressing outrage? Where is the threat of military action against the leaders of these movements? The threat of a drone strike against a jihadist and those around him would at least make these people think. We don’t hear anything from the White House because at the end of the day, it’s not important to the man. He just doesn’t care.
Again, look at the consequences of his actions. An Islamic terrorist state stood up in the Middle East, Christians are being persecuted on a massive scale, and Iran is developing a nuclear weapon unimpeded. And what do we hear from Obama? Crickets… it makes you wonder why he chose to use the Koran when being sworn in as president.
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L. TODD WOOD is a USAFA graduate, a former special operations helicopter pilot, and emerging market bond trader. He has worked on Wall Street for 18 years and has conducted business in over 40 countries and travels extensively. Todd is a contributor to The Moscow Times, NY Post, Fox Business, National Review, and others. His first of many thriller novels, "Currency", deals with the national security consequences of overwhelming sovereign debt. He splits his time between NYC and Moscow. His website is LToddWood.com.
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World Net Daily, (Neil Cavuto: “Your World,” Fox News Report)Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s planned deployment of 1,000 National Guard troops to the border has earned him criticism from Democrats and Mexican officials, the latter who are “seething,” Fox’s Neil Cavuto told Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio today during an interview on the “Your World” program.
Arpaio, recalling his tenure as head of the DEA in Mexico City, said, “We should be across the border,” noting that at one time, U.S. agents worked hand-in-hand with Mexico’s federal police and military on arrests, drug seizures and even gun battles. The two countries “were always operational,” the sheriff said.
“The National Guard, they’re not going there with machine guns. … So, why can’t we send the Border Patrol or the military across the border to work in a bilateral situation? I can’t understand why they are afraid of the National Guard in the United States at the border. It doesn’t make sense.”
“But it does make sense. They don’t like anything we’re doing here.”
Noting President Obama’s planned White House
meeting Friday with the presidents of Honduras,
El Salvador and Guatemala, Arpaio asked
why the focus was not on Mexico.
meeting Friday with the presidents of Honduras,
El Salvador and Guatemala, Arpaio asked
why the focus was not on Mexico.
“Why doesn’t he have a summit meeting in Mexico City where Mexico is the most critical country regarding all this?” asked Arpaio. “Why do we always leave Mexico out? Why isn’t the Mexican president invited to the White House also?”
Reading a statement from Mexico’s foreign affairs agency calling for the immigration problem to be addressed “from a long-term regional perspective and based on principals of good neighborliness and shared responsibility,” Cavuto suggested Mexico didn’t see the deployment of the National Guard as neighborly.
Arpaio fired back.
“If they were neighborly they would do something in Mexico and crack down on the illegal drug traffic and the illegal immigration instead of criticizing our country all the time. If you want to be a good neighbor that’s what you do.
“I’m not criticizing Mexico in a sense,
but there’s something fishy going on
with this administration in bed with Mexico.”
but there’s something fishy going on
with this administration in bed with Mexico.”
Arpaio conceded Mexico’s economic importance, but argued the U.S. should take some of the foreign aid given to its southern neighbors to meet the $3.7 billion Obama has requested to address the border crisis.
“Help pay for our operation – that’s good neighbors,” said Arpaio.
Arpaio dismissed concerns putting the National Guard on the border would complicate an already volatile situation.
“What complications?” asked Arpaio. “I have thousands of posse members – in fact, I’m 30 miles from the border. If I was at the border you’d see my posse out there.
“They’re not going to be going around there locking people up. First of all, they don’t have the authority to do that. They’re just assisting, just like my posse assists my people.
Arpaio continued.
“Why is Mexico concerned about the National Guard?
They ought to be happy. … they should say, ‘Come on
National Guard or military. Come on across the border
and help us out,’ instead of criticizing our operations.”
They ought to be happy. … they should say, ‘Come on
National Guard or military. Come on across the border
and help us out,’ instead of criticizing our operations.”
Mexico is not the only one concerned about Perry’s National Guard deployment. The White House announced today it had sent a team to Texas Tuesday to assess whether a U.S. National Guard deployment would help to handle the immigration crisis at the Mexican border.
The team, made up of officials from the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security, is scheduled to be on the ground Thursday.
To date, the White House has resisted calls from Republicans to deploy the National Guard to fight the onslaught of migrants from Central America.
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