Helping Iraqi Christians
To the Editor:
Two million Iraqis have already left their country, including 600,000 of the estimated 1.2 million Christians in Iraq in 2003. The new wave of violence against Christians in Iraq (“Under Siege,” editorial, Jan. 6) makes clear that the Iraqi refugee crisis will worsen before it improves.
So far, the international community has fallen short on assisting vulnerable Iraqis. Instead of providing an expedited route to safety, the United States refugee system includes redundant and onerous documentation requirements and forces Iraqi families to wait for months or years.
The United States must expedite the evacuation of Iraqi minority groups at imminent risk of death or torture, including Christians.
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I'm not sure the US government *should* be involved in any of this stuff. I do find it to be a double standard that our nation, which has of late prided itself on being 'Christian' (despite having been founded on gnostic principles) but has forgotten so thoroughly what we declare via Lady Liberty - that we want the tired, poor, huddled masses to know they'll find freedom here - is so quick to jump into the fray as long as we're attacking people in their homes, but we turn our collective head and whistle when they need shelter in ours.
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