re: Trump tells the dept of war to strike if attacks on Christians in Nigeria don’t stop

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Neocons have taken over

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I don't agree. Trump uses this rhetoric to get results. If the people don't change their ways and cross that line in the sand. Then Trump is forced to then use force. So people know that he isn't bluffing. At least Trump is using the US military for actually good around the world.

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The neocons have fully taken over this administration


Not what I voted for

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What, protecting peopler is bad.

So now we get upset over a Venezuela type attack in Nigeria?

to that

Nobody has to die if they just fall in line and do as they’re told by Trump.

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Wonder how much their oil reserves factor into this calculus

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So it could be a bonus, nuttin' wrong with that.

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There are approximately 100 million Christians in Nigeria, and estimates of the number killed by Boko Haran in the last 20 years range between 50,000 and 100,000. For the math-challenged, that is somewhere between 1/20 and 1/10 of ONE PERCENT of the Christians in the country. That is not a "genocide." It is a rounding error.

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This is the problem with using the UN’s ridiculous definition of genocide.

It says a genocide is the killing of “the whole or part of a group”.


Hell with that definition there are genocides all over the world all the time.

rapper, Nicki Minaj has thanked Trump for this and is being attacked for it

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Wonder how much their oil reserves factor into this calculus

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I wonder when you forgot that America was supposed to be a force for good, and not just a place for us to bubble wrap ourselves from the rest of the world. We strike an enemy in Iran, people complain. We help Israel try to defeat Hamas, people complain. Now our president wants to liberate Christians in Nigeria from slaughter, and you're thinking about oil?

Can we ever do anything outside of this country, without there being some kind of conspiracy? We can either do something about the extremists who are trying rip apart Christians and Jews everywhere, or we can isolate ourselves and wait for the world to close in around us as our enemies take it all over. They hate western culture. They hate everything that resembles it. They won't stop if we just sit back and do nothing.

There is more than one group killing Christians in Nigeria. And the estimates you just gave over the last "20 years" is actually easily the estimate over the last 10 to 15 years.

Does it meet the definition of genocide? Presently, no. And I really don't care. As a Christian, myself, I think that any country that calls itself a Christian nation (understanding that not everyone here is Christian, but it is undoubtedly the dominant worldview throughout the western world) should do what it can to protect fellow Christians, and to protect, in general, people who are violently oppressed. That does not always have to mean war. We can't be in every place at once. That's why Christian organizations send aid to a lot of foreign countries to at least attempt to ease their suffering.

But the rise of atrocities against Christians in Nigeria is rapidly increasing. Viewing the problem over a long range of time ignores the present escalation. I think that's why Trump is threatening action now. And I'm in favor of it.