(CNSNews.com) – Contending that the “Arab spring” has made non-Muslim religious minorities in the Middle East more vulnerable than ever, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) is voicing frustration over the State Department holding up a Senate bill to appoint a special envoy focusing on the issue.
“I am concerned that time is running out – both in terms of the legislative calendar for this year and in terms of the plight of these communities,” he wrote in a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton late last week. “[D]espite the strategic imperative and the moral obligation to act, the State Department seems unable or unwilling to address the issue with the urgency it demands,” he wrote.
Wolf, who introduced a House bill creating the envoy post – it passed last year with strong bipartisan support – attributes the block to Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) and says Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.) also has disregarded his requests for a hearing on the matter.
Webb’s spokesman declined to comment, but last July he told CNSNews.com the State Department had advised the senator that the appointment of a special envoy would be “unnecessary, duplicative, and likely counterproductive.”
In his letter to Clinton, Wolf wrote that Webb also had indicated he was uncomfortable about the legislation moving ahead without being subject to a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. Wolf had written to Kerry on July 23 requesting such a hearing, to no avail.
Read More at cnsnews.com . By Patrick Goodenough.
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Counterproductive!!!???Counterproductive,as oppose to the weapons smuggling operation that NObama has going? Yeah, I could see saving Christian lives would be less important than suppling our enemies with weapons to kill more innocent people, not even to mention our military!
Here is a new theory I just found that makes more sense than anything Obama has offered on Benghazi. Here is a
YouTube regarding a deal made by Obama with the Muslim brotherhood to “kidnap the ambassador” so Obama could then “rescue him” from his captors in exchange for his releasing the blind sheik, Rachman. Evidently things went terribly wrong when there were 2 Seals there who weren’t part of O’s plan, who fired on the “kidnappers” causing the conflagration, and the rest is history.
Is it possible?
:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFbmP5fW2-A
And Rep. Wolf (R) wants to create, yet another, government position. Instead of creating more government jobs in foreign countries, don’t ya think we ought to take care of things at home…1st? If we rid our country of our Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist president and his cronies, that will reduce the unrest in the Middle East THEY have created. Obama (well, his handlers) is just using his position as a world springboard to launch a world Muslim takeover of Communism/Socialism. I see all Republicans are not on the same page; Rep. Wolf is one of them. So Virginia, if his position is up for re-election, this is one to vote out. If not, then get him out of office another way, but he must go.
IF the United States continues to send troops and weapons to Middle East countries in order to fight their battles against oppression, then how will these countries become independent and self sufficient? The parallel: IF our government continues on our welfare state road, and give the people everything, how will they ever become independent? You see? This administration is creating dependence in the Middle East, too.