digster wrote:
This is kind of what I meant before about "tying yourself in knots" trying to turn this EO into something it isn't. If you really want to, you can do it, but to say this EO is intended to help "identifying the most vulnerable populations and helping them first" is really in direct opposition with how its authors framed and sold it. That's the only point I was trying to raise.
Oh, sorry that was to address the why Christians are getting special treatment. I agree that overall this was "sold" as a Muslim ban. It's not, by any stretch of the imagination, but it carried that stench to it.
This sums up the reaction pretty well:
"The fatal flaw of all revolutionaries is that they know how to tear things down but don't have a f**king clue about how to build anything."
digster wrote:The National Review also kind of papers over the fact that this executive order stems from a policy proposal Trump made in which he proposed a bar on Muslims, straight up. It's entirely reasonable to view this as a way achieving a similar end through more palatable means, which is basically what Giuliani said was the intention behind the action.
It doesn't paper over it so much as ignore it, rightly, because it's completely irrelevant.
Oh, ok.
"I want to see the whole picture--as nearly as I can. I don't want to put on the blinders of 'good and bad,' and limit my vision."-- In Dubious Battle
digster wrote:
This is kind of what I meant before about "tying yourself in knots" trying to turn this EO into something it isn't. If you really want to, you can do it, but to say this EO is intended to help "identifying the most vulnerable populations and helping them first" is really in direct opposition with how its authors framed and sold it. That's the only point I was trying to raise.
Oh, sorry that was to address the why Christians are getting special treatment. I agree that overall this was "sold" as a Muslim ban. It's not, by any stretch of the imagination, but it carried that stench to it.
This sums up the reaction pretty well:
"Its not by any stretch of the imagination" really? You couldn't even imagine that this might be a muslim ban after all of trumps rhetoric? really? You cant possibly fathom such a thing?
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Government deported a US permanent resident to Iran from LAX before a court could rule on his request for a temporary restraining order. Federal judge orders government to go and bring him back.
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