Some fruits of Samantha Power’s labor in Nebraska
Posted by Ann Corcoran on June 1, 2012
Yesterday, I told you about White House refugee czar Samantha Power and her foreign policy doctrine—Responsibility to Protect—which basically says war is o.k. when you are saving people. So, the White House and the State Department were overjoyed to help the Islamist revolution in North Africa—in Tunisia, in Egypt and in Libya.
How is that working out now for the Arab Spring cheering squad at the White House? Yesterday we learned that a leading Presidential candidate in Egypt said Christians must convert to Islam or leave the country (or pay the jizya).
We get them—not just the Christians but the Muslims as well!
We see that if things don’t go according to plan, we get the so-called “refugees” like the three chronicled in this news report from Lincoln, Nebraska. Is that what Ms. Power means when she says “responsibility to protect?”
From KVNO Public Radio:
Lincoln, NE – The Arab Spring and accompanying violence might seem far away to most Nebraskans, but for some refugees now living in Lincoln, that devastation took place in their backyards.
Now just think about this. The Tunisian featured in this article tells the reporter that he was already living in the US but went back for the revolution. He says for their labors the revolution produced less freedom (we could have told him that is what happens when Islamic totalitarians take over). So, oh well, he returned to his good life in Nebraska as a “refugee” from the Arab Spring.
“Everything we had before that could be considered the little freedom – we lost it,” Zahrouni said. “We wanted freedom, but we didn’t have freedom. We had less freedom than before So, it was really frightening. It was a long, long nightmare.”
Instead of fleeing the conflict in his country, Zahrouni chose to experience it head-on. He’d originally left Tunisia in December of 2007 when his wife was accepted into one of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s doctorate programs. But when news of the revolution first broke, he decided to return to his family in his home country, and witnessed a new beginning. Zahrouni would ultimately stay in Tunisia until the small country settled down before returning to Lincoln with his family.
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“I suffered what they suffered, I’ve seen what they have seen, and I say, Guess what, they can survive it,’” he said. “If I didn’t go there (during the revolution), I would feel really bad to stay here. But now I feel comfortable and confident that Tunisia has a chance to survive, and probably, it already did.” [But, I'll stay here as a refugee in comfy America just in case---ed]
There should be a law! If someone is here in the US on some other VISA, or are a “refugee,” we should forbid that person from returning to his or her “home” country to participate in revolutions by forbidding their return to the US. And, while we are at it, anyone here formally as a refugee or asylee should be banned from returning (unless it’s a permanent return!) to the country from which he or she supposedly escaped—like Somalia or Bosnia—for visits and vacations!
3 Responses to “Some fruits of Samantha Power’s labor in Nebraska”
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drkray57 said
just a clarification, the R2P idea did not come from S Powers rather from a coalition of human rights organizations concerned about genocide and was endorsed by the UN in 2005, but no countries have officially signed it like the convention on Human Rights, see http://www.responsibilitytoprotect.org/index.php/about-rtop/core-rtop-documents
acorcoran said
Then she has been pushing it as her idea!
Susan Smith said
So many loopholes in our immigration system, so little time to fix it before it’s too late. Interesting article and commentary. Thank you for sharing.