This sums up some feeling I have on the matters during the last few days. This administration is getting chastised for trying to be proactive but a large majority stayed silent when it didn't fit an agenda. Quoted from Justen Charters after speaking with Kris Kyle' Iraqi interpreter.

 

"To all the anti-Trump protesters who are trying to take the moral high ground,

 

President Obama was in office when genocide was happening in Syria. Assad crossed the 'red line' on multiple occasions, and Obama continued to talk tough but did nothing.

Over a quarter of a million people died in Syria during Obama's time in office. He didn't go after Assad. I didn't see a massive crowd of you at the White House protesting. Women, children, dying. Sarin gas attacks, war crimes. Where were you? Where were your signs?

 

When James Foley, Steven Sotloff, Adam Kassig and Kayla Mueller were all murdered by ISIS, where were your candlelight vigils? Where were the huge crowds for the innocents who were killed? I must have missed them.

When Boko Haram came through Nigeria like a battering ram and took over village after village, beheading innocents and burning and pillaging, where were you? Were you calling Congress and telling them we can't stand for this? Were you out in the streets in the thousands? I think not.

 

You care about Sudan? Genocide has been taking place on and off again in Sudan since 2003. Did you march against the murders? Did you scream at the top of your lungs for humanity and for Bush or Obama to do something after an estimated 300,000 died? No.

 

And Yemen, since when did you care about Yemen, children having been starving in mass in Yemen for years. Their emaciated bodies, their sunken eyes. I don't recall you marching against those injustices either.

Were you out in force when ISIS ran through Iraq and was killing people in the thousands? Beheading families, raping Yazidis, burning people alive. I don't remember an Anti-ISIS protest at the White House at the time. I don't remember thousands showing up for innocently slaughtered Iraqis.

 

But now you're out at the White House, telling people that you care about these people. Doubtful.

You're out there right now because it's become popular. You want to be part of the crowd. Too bad you stayed silent when you could have actually made a difference."

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