“We have very robust vetting procedures for those refugees.” – NSA Advisor Ben Rhodes
Those were the words of President Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting Ben Rhodes, appearing on several Sunday morning talk shows.
With his Master’s of Fine Arts degree, Ben Rhodes is credited with shaping President Obama’s foreign policy. (nytimes.com)
His appearances were calculated to ease your concern about those thousands of Syrian refugees coming to the United States. Refugees who carry phony passports like those in the Paris attacks.
This blog, however, is perhaps the only place you will learn about Rhodes’ credentials, and why you should worry.
Rhodes is the deputy to Susan Rice, who appeared on those same talk shows after the attack on Benghazi, to convince us that it was the video that precipitated the attack. They are quite a pair.
There’s more. A graduate with majors in English and political science from Rice University, he went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing.
He began working for Obama as a speechwriter on his 2008 campaign staff, and wrote his 2009 Cairo speech. You may not recall that Obama opened that speech with a “greeting of peace from U.S. Muslim communities,” before he spoke of a new beginning between the U.S. and the Muslim world “based upon mutual interest and mutual respect.”
Having followed Obama’s feckless foreign policy decisions, I know that they are the product of his philosophical kinship to Rhodes, who is given credit for shaping the president’s views. God help us.
