{"id":20853,"date":"2017-04-07T22:16:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T22:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20853"},"modified":"2017-04-07T22:16:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T22:16:54","slug":"how-can-trump-deny-syrian-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20853","title":{"rendered":"How can Trump deny Syrian refugees?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/refugees.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20854\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/refugees.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"106\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump expressed appropriate outrage over the Syrian government&#8217;s use of chemical weapons against civilians &#8212; including children.<\/p>\n<p>The president is right. Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. And I do support the decision to launch Tomahawk cruise missiles at military bases believed to be where the Syrians launched the chemical weapons against their fellow citizens.<\/p>\n<p>However &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>How does the president justify his decision to ban refugees fleeing the civil war in Syria because they happen to originate from a Muslim-majority nation?<\/p>\n<p>His statement condemning the casualties inflicted on children seems to fly directly against his heartless decision to ban refugees.<\/p>\n<p>How do you balance one against the other, Mr. President?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump expressed appropriate outrage over the Syrian government&#8217;s use of chemical weapons against civilians &#8212; including children. The president is right. Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. And I do support the decision to launch Tomahawk cruise missiles at military bases believed to be where the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20853\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How can Trump deny Syrian refugees?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,13,14],"tags":[1424,6895,4492],"class_list":["post-20853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-military-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-refugee-ban","tag-syrian-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20855,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20853\/revisions\/20855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}