{"id":222,"date":"2019-10-13T00:29:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T00:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2019-10-13T00:29:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T00:29:07","slug":"trump-the-kurds-and-evangelical-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/trump-the-kurds-and-evangelical-hypocrisy\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, the Kurds, and Evangelical Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_223\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-223\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-223\" src=\"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ef67a9f4-4c98-4138-aaca-4ce46efae64c-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ef67a9f4-4c98-4138-aaca-4ce46efae64c-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ef67a9f4-4c98-4138-aaca-4ce46efae64c.jpg 665w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The recent Trump decision to pull out a few hundred military advisors from Northeast Syria in the face of a Turkish push into Kurdish controlled territory to establish an ill defined &#8220;safe zone&#8221; has generated a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/10\/kurds-trump-evangelical-christians-syria\" target=\"_blank\">bewildering wail of protest <\/a>from American Evangelical Christian circles in recent days. I find it a little appalling; the selective outrage and histrionics from the very diehard supporters of Trump, who ran on a platform promising to do the very thing he is doing in this scenario.<\/p>\n<p>It is hypocritical because in the midst of the impending &#8220;slaughter&#8221; and &#8220;genocide&#8221; the Evangelical Christian Industry Media is hyperventilating about in their faux outrage is curiously ignored as it is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/africa\/islamist-militants-are-targeting-christians-in-burkina-faso-they-are-planting-seeds-of-a-religious-conflict\/2019\/08\/20\/3d689bf8-b91c-11e9-aeb2-a101a1fb27a7_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">happening in other parts of the world in real time<\/a>. What is the big difference between Northeastern Syria and Africa?<\/p>\n<p>Reasons too many and detailed to go into for this writer. That the American Evangelical Christian Industrial complex is in bed with the world; a selective globalist social gospel prevailing over the authentic proclamation of the genuine, guarantees the pandemonium throughout will continue. The US Government, in cahoots with a fake US &#8220;Christian&#8221; cohort, is expecting Trump to continue <a href=\"https:\/\/gellerreport.com\/2019\/10\/dont-romaticize-kurds.html\/\" target=\"_blank\">to support one terrorist organization over another<\/a>. An endless treadmill of wars the majority of Americans, including this writer, is really weary of.<\/p>\n<p>Read More&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2019\/10\/08\/critics-aghast-as-trump-keeps-word-about-no-more-wars-n2554328\" target=\"_blank\">Critics Aghast As Trump Keeps Word About No More Wars<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?o=1&amp;p=48&amp;l=ur1&amp;category=books&amp;banner=0HX1M2P8DDZ20D689R82&amp;f=ifr&amp;linkID=c5b898aafccbf76f9d26f25f19131ba5&amp;t=salemsmailbox&amp;tracking_id=salemsmailbox\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent Trump decision to pull out a few hundred military advisors from Northeast Syria in the face of a Turkish push into Kurdish controlled territory to establish an ill defined &#8220;safe zone&#8221; has generated a bewildering wail of protest from American Evangelical Christian circles in recent days. I find it a little appalling; the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/trump-the-kurds-and-evangelical-hypocrisy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trump, the Kurds, and Evangelical Hypocrisy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,12,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americanevangelicalism","category-ezekial-38-39","category-foreign-policy","category-syria","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}