I recognize that the AVA is a completely non-partisan organization, but I think that this type of behavior transcends party ideology and touches on a larger problem that our nation's foregin policy "leaders" have displayed on a consistent basis.

Cross-posted from Blue Indiana:

I'm sorry, but I couldn't help but put a post up on this, even if it was only a blurb at the end of an article. In an AP article from yesterday on the plight of Iraqi refugees, Rep. Pence had this to say at the end of the piece.

But Ackerman said the administration has been moving too slowly.

"We have left thousands of Iraqis high and dry, desperate and deserted," he said. "These people are now in flight because of our own failure."

He said he is planning to introduce legislation to provide safe resettlement in the United States for Iraqis who face persecution or who had put their trust in the U.S.

Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., expressed particular concern about the fate of Iraqi Christians. (emphasis added)

Of particular concern? Can that be interpreted in any other way than to say, "Iraqi Christians deserve more attention than their Muslim brethren?" Certainly they face discrimination within Iraq, but to say that they deserve any more attention than the rest of the country is not only ridiculous, but also pompously ethnocentric.

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