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2017-02-06 Home Front: WoT

Petraeus lectures on ‘Moral Obligations'

[Free Beacon] Retired Gen. David Petraeus said Friday that the United States has a "moral obligation" to provide local translators who have aided the U.S. military abroad a path to the United States.

"There is an implicit moral obligation to those who share risk," Petraeus, a former CIA director, said at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. on Friday afternoon. "It's very important for the future as well."

Petraeus made the remarks on the Special Immigrant Visa program for local translators in Iraq and Afghanistan who have aided the U.S. military amidst backlash over President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration.

The order, unveiled last week, bars immigrants from seven Muslim-majority nations from entering the United States for at least 90 days. It immediately sparked outrage and confusion, particularly over whether it applied to individuals with green cards or special immigrant visas.

The Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday that translators and interpreters who hold special immigrant visas would be exempt from the ban. The Pentagon welcomed that development on Thursday.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-06 05:59|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 ...And Dave Petreaus knows from morals, you betcha.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2017-02-06 12:21|| 2017-02-06 12:21|| Front Page Top

#2 But when he's right, he's right.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-02-06 13:24|| 2017-02-06 13:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Slick Willie aside, is it moral
To blow off your friends who do oral?
Much more, sez Petraeus,
Should dumping dismay us
Of mouths that adopted our quarrel.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2017-02-06 14:53|| 2017-02-06 14:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Why did Petraeus wait until Friday to mention this? The foot dragging on bringing local translators to the USA has been going on since about 2003.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-02-06 16:02|| 2017-02-06 16:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Where was the good General on this between, say, 2008 and 2016?

Posted by Pappy 2017-02-06 17:45|| 2017-02-06 17:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Hamstrung by some moral problems of his own, Pappy?

Posted by Bobby 2017-02-06 18:15|| 2017-02-06 18:15|| Front Page Top

#7 Too bad pencil skirts don't come with erasers.

Posted by charger 2017-02-06 19:04|| 2017-02-06 19:04|| Front Page Top

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