The White House Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes was on Fox News Sunday today.  One of the topics discussed was importing more Syrian refugees:

https://youtu.be/dV-H4049_8w?t=2m19s

Video Prompted to [@02:19] Wallace “One of the attackers in the French slaughter was carrying a Syrian passport that seemed to indicate that he had been a refugee that had come into Europe along with the flood of migrants in October. Given that, is President Obama reconsidering the plan to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year?”

Rhodes: “No, Chris, we’re still planning to take in Syrian refugees,we have very robust vetting procedures for those refugees.”

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As this meeting takes place – France begins leveling Raqqa, for all intents and purposes the HQ, Capital of ISIS operations and the Islamic Caliphate.

UPDATE: So far 30 airstrikes have pounded #ISIS stronghold of #Raqqa. No end in sight.

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Readers here will note the geopolitical partnership with President Obama and President Erdogan is based on their mutual friendship, very close friendship, and common ideological world view.

The mostly secular Muslim nation of Egypt took control (through general Fattah El-Sisi) of their nation and dispatched the Muslim Brotherhood (the political outreach division of ISIS).  Several key leaders of the Brotherhood were exiled, they sought safety in Qatar. Jordan, Bahrain, and Saudi-Arabia eventually joined with Egypt and pressured Qatar to stop being a safe-haven for the Muslim Brotherhood and by extension ISIS.

Exiled yet again the five primary leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist network found a home in Turkey – where they remain today.

By action, not words, Recep Erdogan has shown he is in alignment with the Brotherhood, and their military apparatus that is now ISIS. Erdogan, head of a NATO nation, refused to allow NATO operations to launch in defense of the Syrian and Iraqi Kurds.

Erdogan refused to allow or assist coalition rescue operations to save the Yazidi people in Northern Iraq. Erdogan also strenuously and violently blocked any assistance from reaching Kurds during the siege of Kobane (Kobani).

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The second Democrat Presidential debate starts at 9:00pm Eastern.  It is available via CBS LiveSTREAM HERE  Unlike the CNN debate, CBS has carefully constructed their debate format and provided each of the presidential candidates with a preview of questions to be asked by debate moderators.

However, in the final hours a request to spend more time discussing terror and foreign policy, as a result of the Paris attack,  was turned down by the Bernie Sanders campaign.

If you are watching the debate on CBS share your opinion in the comments section below.

Earlier this year the U.S. State Department and White House announced they would take 10,000 Syrian “refugees” in the current fiscal year.  In the following two years they would settle an additional 200,000.  So where are they going:

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GOP Presidential candidate and front-runner Donald Trump spoke to thousands at a rally in Beaumont, TX at the Ford Park Arena (audio begins 00:40):

Incredible report from Fox Sports shows how much worse the coordinated Paris attack could have been.  According to the report, the suicide bombers were stopped by security prior to entering the packed soccer stadium filled with 80,000 fans.   They detonated their explosive vests as a result of failed entry...

Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, one security guard explained how the Stade de France attacker attempted to back away from the entrance after being discovered, only to detonate the explosives vest in the process. One police officer, confirming the events, said police believe the attacker was attempting to enter the stadium to detonate the explosives inside to start a stampede.

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