{"id":8324,"date":"2019-10-09T22:08:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T05:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=8324"},"modified":"2019-10-20T20:40:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T03:40:02","slug":"message-of-the-day-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=8324","title":{"rendered":"Message of the Day: War, Human Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Updated Oct.19) Turkey Attacks U.S. Ally in Syria<\/em>, The New York Times, Oct. 9, 2019<\/span><\/p>\n

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As we are about to post a new Issue of the Week and Message of the Day (which we have left up together for the same period for some time now as a policy in order to increase staying focused on critical issues as explained at length some ago), we leave this issue with a new opinion piece in The New York Times (posted online today, October 19, in print tomorrow in The Sunday Review) by Opinion Columnist Nicholas Kristof which summarizes what has happened on this issue historically through today.\u00a0The piece follows:<\/p>\n

Trump Takes Incoherence and Inhumanity and Calls It Foreign Policy<\/a><\/p>\n

By Nicholas Kristof, October 19, 2019, The New York Times<\/p>\n

He was right when he said, \u201cForeign policy is what I\u2019ll be remembered for.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

It was just five years ago that an American president, faced with a crisis on Syria\u2019s border, acted decisively and honorably.<\/p>\n

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Barack Obama responded with airstrikes and a rescue operation in 2014 when the Islamic State started a genocide against members of the Yazidi sect, slaughtering men and forcing women and girls into sexual slavery. Obama\u2019s action, along with a heroic intervention by Kurdish fighters, saved tens of thousands of Yazidi lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile America has never been able to right every wrong, America has made the world a more secure and prosperous place,\u201d Obama declared<\/a> at the time. \u201cAnd our leadership is necessary to underwrite the global security and prosperity that our children and our grandchildren will depend upon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Contrast Obama\u2019s move, successfully working with allies to avert a genocide, with President Trump\u2019s betrayal this month of those same Kurdish partners in a way that handed a victory to the Islamic State, Turkey, Syria, Iran \u2014 and, of course, Russia, because almost everything Trump does seems to end up benefiting Moscow.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho can trust Trump\u2019s America?\u201d The Economist magazine asks on its newest cover<\/a>. Senator Mitt Romney, Republican of Utah, added: \u201cWhat we have done to the Kurds will stand as a bloodstain in the annals of American history.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n