1. Despite what conservative media sites reporting, the President did not say he doesn't care if "America wins." You should watch his unedited statement. Like many things reported by Fox, or other conservative news sources, it's doctored.
2. No refugees have been arrested for aiding ISIS in the U.S. None. If a site is saying otherwise, that site is incorrect.
3. All refugees go through an in-depth vetting. It takes 12-18 months in most cases. There is no need for "more." We do an excellent job at that now. There have been no arrests on domestic terror charges by a refugee in the last 750,000 cases. The U.S. does a much better job than even most European nations at vetting refugees, and it's insulting actually that the fine people who work at this are being questioned by Congressional failures.
4. Christians commit plenty of acts of terror, as do all religious groups. I would point to the Charleston shootings this year, or the Oklahoma City Bombing. We don't try to keep out Christian refugees though, nor should we. This entire debate is idiotic. We don't do religious tests in America. We took in thousands of Muslim Bosnians in the 1990s and early 2000s, and that was the right thing to do. Let's not become a bunch of bigots now.
5. Please stop celebrating Vladimir Putin's "toughness." That's great that he says he'll kill ISIS. He's also actively supporting a dictator who is massacring his own people by the thousands. Being tough and stupid is not a virtue, it's a failing.
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