Peter Lucas: Secretary Kerry, our genocide security monitor
By Peter Lucas
Updated: 04/01/2016 09:41:20 AM EDT
When it comes to genocide, John Kerry is like the bank guard in that wonderful little Life Lock bank television ad.
You know the one. It's where two gunmen break into a bank, smash a glass counter, wield weapons, take a hostage and shout, "Nobody move."
Bank employees and customers hit the ground, except for a lone bank guard who is still standing. One woman lying on the floor looks up and says, "Do something."
The guard looks around and pleasantly explains, "I'm not a security guard. I'm a security monitor. I only notify people if there is a robbery." He pauses, and then says, "There's a robbery." His job done, he just stands there and does nothing.
The confused woman looks at her equally confused companion on the floor. He looks up and seems to say, "Huh?" The camera pans to the gunmen, who also look confused.
Then a television voice comes in and says, "Why monitor a problem if you don't fix it?" as the voice makes a case for Life Lock.
That security monitor is Secretary of State John Kerry, who is President Barack Obama's frontman when it comes to the crime of genocide committed by the Muslim terrorists of the Islamic State against Christians and other religious groups in the Middle East.
Like Obama, Kerry will tell you that the slaughter of Christians is taking place, but they are not going to do much about it. Their job, like the bank's security monitor, is to tell you that the slaughter is taking place, not to end it.
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And, like Obama, Kerry also does not refer to the Islamic State killers as radical Islamic terrorists or members of ISIS. He calls the terrorists Daesh, which is the Arabic name by which many in the Middle East call them, ostensibly in derision.
The Obama administration, after much national and international goading, and a congressional deadline, finally got around to admitting recently what everyone has been saying for months -- that the slaughter of Christians, Yazidis and Shiite Muslims in Syria and Iraq by the Islamic terrorists was genocide.
Not only were Republicans and Democrats in Congress urging Obama to call the atrocities what they were --genocide -- they were joined by other groups as well, including the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic organization that issued a report a week ago on ISIS's attempt to kill all Christians.
So it became increasingly clear that the Obama administration was feeling the heat.
Kerry said, "Naming these crimes is important. What is essential is to stop them." But he won't name them.
Part of Obama's reluctance to label the killings by the Islamic State genocide stems from his refusal, despite a 2008 campaign promise to Armenian Americans, to call the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by the Turks in 1915 a genocide. Turkey is a NATO ally.
Back then, Obama said, "The Armenian genocide is not an allegation, a personal opinion, or a point of view, but rather a widely documented fact supported by an overwhelming body of his historical evidence."
But that was then. This is now.
And just because Obama has agreed to call the murder of Christians genocide, there is not much evidence that he is going to do anything about it. Obama and Kerry are security monitors, not security guards.
There is no plan to stop them, other than to continue to do what the Obama administration has been doing for months, and that is to conduct sporadic bombing and drone strikes against some terrorist targets.
Nevertheless the Islamic State seems to be weathering the U.S.-led coalition bombing against it quite well, as the beheadings and the rapes of Christian women and others goes on, and ISIS spreads its terror into Belgium and beyond.
It is all Obama administration double talk. Asked about any change in military strategy, John Kirby, the State Department spokesman, in an exact quote, said: "I don't foresee that. I would tell you that the president has already decided months ago and ordered the interagency to intensify our effort against this group -- not just militarily, but certainly the military line of effort is one of them, and we have done that. And I think you're going to see that continue. That intensification is not over. So there's been an intense effort here in just the last several months, separate and distinct from the work that got us to this determination today, to go after this group with much more energy and with more effort along all the lines of effort."
It makes your head spin.
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