Krauthammer on Syrian Refugees: Let in Women, Children, Those over 50

‘Now he’s attacking people who are worried about the danger to the very people Obama abandoned’

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BAIER: "Here's what I hear from people who have a problem with it. Is that there wasn't an ISIS back then. There wasn't this evolving kind of different entity that we're dealing with in ISIS." 
KRAUTHAMMER: "I don't particularly agree with what the governors and politicians on the right are doing. But they deserve some respect, a lot more than the president gave with his preening address he gave yesterday. Remember, he's the one that decided against the begging, the advice, recommendations of all of his top advisers, to do nothing at the beginning of the Syrian civil war. He could have established easily, a safe zone. The way that we did for over a decade in Kurdistan, in Iraq. It wouldn't have cost boots on the ground. And he decided, because he didn't want to sully his reputation as a man who ends war and doesn't start them, he denied them. So now he's attacking people who are worried about the danger to the very people Obama abandoned. And forced into refugee status. As to what the Republicans are doing, fully understandable. We know that one of the terrorists in Paris had come a month ago, posing, or perhaps in the stream of refugees, through Greece and then he killed a lot of Frenchmen. So, I would say, given all that, given the new circumstances, you allow the women and the children and the men over 50. As you did in the past. But you're extra-careful, extra scrutiny for the men of fighting age, the ones who do this stuff. And for each of them, you require a positive vetting, not just the absence of a negative one."

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