{"id":28944,"date":"2015-12-15T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T22:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=28944"},"modified":"2015-12-15T15:00:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T22:00:01","slug":"on-the-obama-administrations-culpable-incompetence-in-protecting-our-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/12\/on-the-obama-administrations-culpable-incompetence-in-protecting-our-borders.html","title":{"rendered":"On the Obama administration&#8217;s culpable incompetence in protecting our borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28945\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28945\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/12\/Syrian_refugees_in_lebanon.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28945\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/12\/Syrian_refugees_in_lebanon-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"A Syrian refugee family in cramped quarters\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Syrian refugees in Lebanon<br>(Wikimedia Commons)<br>Click to enlarge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I hope that we can help the refugees who\u2019re fleeing the turmoil in the Middle East. \u00a0It\u2019s our human duty to do so. \u00a0For those of us who are Christians, it\u2019s our <em>Christian<\/em> duty to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But if the federal government under the Obama administration is going to be this deliberately ineffectual, that definitely makes the admission to the United States of refugees (or anybody else, really) quite problematic:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/428540\/tashfeen-malik-social-media-ignored-dhs\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/428540\/tashfeen-malik-social-media-ignored-dhs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What fantasy world are these people living in?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 I hope that we can help the refugees who\u2019re fleeing the turmoil in the Middle East. \u00a0It\u2019s our human duty to do so. \u00a0For those of us who are Christians, it\u2019s our Christian duty to do so. \u00a0 But if the federal government under the Obama administration is going to be this deliberately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>On the Obama administration&#039;s culpable incompetence in protecting our borders<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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