Kristof: Trump's cuts to aid killing more Christians than Jihadis do
By Nicholas Kristof / The New York Times
I have great news for President Donald Trump!
He has expressed such outrage at attacks on Christians in Nigeria that he has threatened military intervention there, and the Pentagon has obligingly prepared plans for attack. Trump’s concern for Nigerians is welcome, but here’s the awkwardness: Trump’s aid cuts are killing far more Nigerian Christians than Islamic terrorists are.
So if Trump wants to save the lives of Nigerian Christians, the good news is that he doesn’t need to spend billions of dollars on charging (as he put it) “into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing.’” Rather, all Trump has to do is restore the American aid that was estimated to be saving the lives of more than a quarter-million Nigerians each year.
The president’s threat to attack Nigeria seemed a response to heated talk in certain circles lately about killings or even genocide of Christians in Nigeria. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas has denounced “the mass murder of Christians” in Nigeria, and Bill Maher claimed that more than 100,000 Christians have been killed there since 2009.
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