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We take in 1 million immigrants a year

September 11, 2015

Our part in what?

We take in 1 million immigrants a year. We take in something like 70,000 refugees a year. We've spent $4 billion on humanitarian aid to the Syrian crisis to aid people who hate us.

We've not only done our part. We've done a whole lot of other people's parts too. But Obama insists that just isn't enough.

“We have to work with our European partners on this issue. The Syrian crisis not just European crisis, it’s a world problem,” Obama said Friday at a town hall meeting for military service members held at Fort Meade, Maryland that went to military bases across the world. “We have got to do our part, first of all in taking some of these refugees.”

No, it's actually a Syrian problem. And we don't have to do our part. We've more than done our part.

Let Saudi Arabia and Iran do its part. The former can take the Sunni refugees and the latter the Shiite refugees. We'll take the Christians.

Here's Scott Walker's right response to this nonsense.

"No, we shouldn't be taking on any more Syrian refugees right now," the Republican presidential hopeful told reporters in Eau Claire, according to Wisconsin Public Radio.
"In the last year, America has received almost 70,000 refugees of which nearly 2,000 are from Syria. We’ve spent something like $4 billion in humanitarian relief in terms of helping the situation in Syria," Walker said.
"So we’re doing more than any other country in the world, and it’s got to be clear that the problem that has to be addressed is not the refugee issue — that’s a symptom. The real problem is this administration fails to deal with taking on ISIS," he added.

Then Obama whined about how Russia is making a big mistake.

“I remember a conversation I had with Mr. Putin four or five years ago that that was a mistake, it would make things worse, as long as he continued to support Assad. He did not take my warnings, as a consequence things have gotten worse,” Obama said. “We are going to be engaging Russia, to let them know that you can’t continue to double down on a strategy that is doomed to fail.”

American voters doubled down on failure when they reelected Obama.

The Russian strategy doesn't look like it's doomed to fail.

Putin got Obama to back off air strikes. He got Obama to sign off on nukes for his Iranian pals. It's Obama's strategy that has failed. Miserably. These days he's competing with the Russians to act as Iran's air force in Iraq while whining about Assad.

“The only way to maintain order is through political negotiations and settlement, that’s where the Russians are going to have to get a little smarter,” Obama said.

Sure. The Russians who have outplayed you like a chump are going to have to get "smarter". How much are you looking to lose here?

But Obama has a plan. Okay, he has no plan.

The Barack Obama administration and the U.S. intelligence community have concluded that Russia is set to start flying combat missions from a new air base inside Syria, but there’s disagreement inside the U.S. government on what to do about it.
Thursday at the White House, top officials were scheduled to meet at the National Security Council Deputies Committee level to discuss how to respond to the growing buildup of Russian military equipment and personnel in Latakia, a city on the Syrian coast controlled by the Bashar al-Assad regime. Obama has called on his national security officials to come up with a plan as early as next week, as intelligence reports pour in about the Russian plans to set up an air base there. The options are to try to confront Russia inside Syria or, as some in the White House are advocating, cooperate with Russia there on the fight against the Islamic State.

Don't ask Obama. He knows nothing.

US President Barack Obama didn't know about State Department's move to ask Bulgaria and Greece to deny overflight permissions to Syria-bound Russian planes, Bloomberg says.

He found out about it from the news. No doubt.