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Gaza, Ukraine,
Border Crises Have Roots In a Weakened America
Mark Davis
Jul 18, 2014
When this week began, it was hard to imagine a story knocking our
collapsing borders from the front of our minds. But in the span of a
few hours Thursday, two stories made us hit the pause button on the
mounting and proper indignation over the organized (and often secret)
government dumping of illegals in our midst.
That is still a huge problem, and the one with the most direct effect
on the average American citizen. But when TV screens began streaming
images of the Ukraine wreckage of yet another Malaysian plane, and then
the Israeli operation in Gaza, the border took a back seat.
That won’t last long. Ukraine and Gaza pack deep global importance, but
if the Obama White House continues to hose us over the causes of the
illegal deluge and the reasons for the secrecy surrounding it, the
border crisis will force its way back to the attention-span forefront.
So if the coming days are to be a whirlwind ride from Gaza to Donetsk
to the Rio Grande, this seems like a fitting moment to evaluate how we
have arrived at all three crises— and surprise, it is not as simple as
a finger pointed at Barack Obama.
While his stewardship of America’s decline is a prime cause of Mideast
turmoil, Russian adventurism and a porous southern border, all three
nightmares have histories that weave back through Presidents and
Congresses of both parties.
Let’s begin with the Israeli response to endless provocation from Hamas
terrorists in Gaza. Watch this operation closely, for this is what it
looks like when a strong leader takes bold action to protect his
nation, a sight we have not seen and will not see as long as Obama is
in the White House.
But even George W. Bush, who kept us safe with a war taken to the enemy
after 9/11, supported a ridiculous “two-state solution” that hastens to
grant Palestinians a nation well before they show any aptitude for
non-terrorist self-governance...
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