Oh yeah...."He's not a war hero. He got captured. I happen to like people who don't get captured."

And of course, Trump is going to make sure he and he alone, get all the credit for the release of these 3 Americans of Korean ancestry.

Paladin

(28,252 posts)

4. Fuckin' bullseye, Fugelsang. (nt)

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Thu May 10, 2018, 10:58 AM

May 2018

BobTheSubgenius

(11,563 posts)

6. I've said it before, and I'll say it again.

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Thu May 10, 2018, 11:51 AM

May 2018

The wry wit of John Fugelsang is a national treasure.

Pluvious

(4,309 posts)

7. Where did you encounter this great observation ?

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Thu May 10, 2018, 11:57 AM

May 2018

I did just checked his Twitter, not there (yet?)

Thanks

RestoreAmerica2020

(3,435 posts)

8. On one hand he claims to care about Asian-Americans and or refugees, yet with the other hand...

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Thu May 10, 2018, 11:58 AM

May 2018

[Huffington Post 04/06/2018 03:00 pm ET Updated Apr 07, 2018]

The U.S. Just Quietly Deported The Largest Group Of Cambodians Ever. The group included refugees who had been in the U.S. for decades.

US envoy to Vietnam quit in protest at Trump plan to deport thousands of refugees
Ted Osius says administration asked him to press Vietnam to accept the deportees, who had mostly fled to America after 1975

[The Guardian Amanda Holpuch in New York
@holpuch
Fri 13 Apr 2018 13.12 EDT Last modified on Fri 13 Apr 2018 16.46 EDT]

The former US ambassador to Vietnam has said he resigned last year in opposition to a Trump administration plan to deport more than 8,000 Vietnamese people, most of whom are refugees.

Ted Osius, who worked in the US foreign services for 30 years, said the Trump administration asked him to press Vietnam’s government to accept the deportees – who had mostly fled the country after the fall of Saigon in 1975.

“The majority targeted for deportation – sometimes for minor infractions – were war refugees who had sided with the United States, whose loyalty was to the flag of a nation that no longer exists,” Osius wrote in an essay for the Foreign Service Journal this month.

“And they were to be ‘returned’ decades later to a nation ruled by a communist regime with which they had never reconciled. I feared many would become human rights cases, and our government would be culpable.”