Monday, June 18, 2018

Trump's Deliberate Act Of Cruelty

Here is a missive from Patrick Cockburn:

The Trump administration is guilty of many acts of deliberate cruelty, such as taking away the children of immigrant parents at the US border. But just as the world was watching the lead up to the Trump-Kim Jong-un meeting in Singapore last Monday, the US may have done something even worse by quietly announcing a decision that threatens to kill millions by starvation or disease.

The potential death sentence came in a short press statement by the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, effectively giving a green light for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to launch an offensive in Yemen aimed at capturing Hodeidah on the Red Sea. The port city is the point of entry for 70 per cent of food and medical supplies for the eight million Yemenis whom the UN says are on the brink of starvation out of the 22 million in need of humanitarian aid.

You can read the rest @
http://www.unz.com/pcockburn/attacking-hodeidah-is-trumps-deliberate-act-of-cruelty/

President Trump operates with the support of many of America's so-called Christians. But is he acting in a Christian-like manner?

Here is what Jesus told His followers to do:

Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Matthew 5:38-39 KJV

And Saint Paul echoed this in his letter to the Romans:

Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans 12:19-21 KJV

The people of Yemen are not our enemy. And even if they were, they would not deserve what we are doing to them.

And we should not accept this kind of behavior from our "allies", especially ones whom we are supplying with the tools of death now being used to exterminate the people of Yemen.

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