During your Manilla press conference this week, you mocked Republicans for their concern over the threat Syrian refugees pose saying, “They’re scared of widows and orphans coming into the United States of America.”
Where were you on Aug. 20, 2013, when 1,429 people, including 426 children, in Damascus were killed with Sarin gas? A year earlier, you told us that “a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus. That would change my equation.”
Yet, on Sept. 4, 2013, you said, “I didn’t set a red line; the world set a red line.” Okay, Mr. President, so be it, but what’s your excuse for not stopping the genocide in Syria. Women and children aside, where were you when Christians were being beheaded and burned alive?
You didn’t seem to worry about Syria’s women and children while you couldn’t come up with a strategy to deal with the Assad regime and ISIL. How many of those women and children would be alive today if you had acted responsibly.
There’s more. The Oxford Research Group reported that some 11,000 children died in the Syrian conflict by late November 2013, and early this year, the United Nations, your favorite deliberative body, estimated that 220,000 had died in the war.
For years, you ignored the horror being faced by those women and children in Syria; now you want to be seen as the savior of 10,000 refugees headed for America.
Shame on you. How can you look at yourself in a mirror?
