Julian Pecquet on AL Monitor reports the echoes of the objections from the US Foreign Service to the travel ban:
“As a result of this ban, many of those fleeing war and persecution have been adversely and unjustly affected,” the Mecca-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation said in a statement Jan. 30. “Such selective and discriminatory acts will only serve to embolden the radical narratives of extremists and will provide further fuel to the advocates of violence and terrorism.”
And the Saudi-backed government in Yemen, which is battling Houthi rebels and welcomes Trump’s stance against the Houthis’ Iranian patron, also denounced what they call Trump’s “ban.”
“We resent the US ban,” the Yemeni Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “Such decisions support the stance of extremists and sow divisions.”
Even the Iraqi Kurds, many of whom trust Trump to be more supportive than former President Obama of their dreams of independence, are keeping a nervous eye on the developments of the past few days. Like other Iraqis, they are covered by new regulations denying them entry into the United States for 90 days.
Populist stands, popular as they may be, are naturally developed by those who have little experience in the relevant domains. As the amateurs muck about, the innocent victims cry out, but those responsible will never apologize and only relent with the greatest reluctance, for they will hide behind the bush of conveying the desires of the people, the deliverer of wishes; but such is not the role of our representatives in government, but to instead find and implement effectual policies; and, much like Trump’s self-proclaimed military wit, discard the merely popular; for the popular is the dreams of the inexperienced, unnuanced, unsubtle.
And the world is a very subtle, non-linear place.
