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Home Front: WoT
Erasing the Obama legacy: US Holocaust museum pulls study on Obama inaction in Syria
2017-09-07
[IsraelTimes] Official memorial rethinking research after being criticized for saying ex-president was correct in doing little to prevent slaughter

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum will re-evaluate a study that said there was little the B.O. regime could do to prevent genocide in Syria after removing the document from its website.

The Tablet online magazine, which obtained portions of the study, reported that it was met with "shock and harsh criticism by prominent Jewish communal leaders and thinkers."

The paper, which was to be released officially on September 11,
...an interesting choice of date...
argued that "a variety of factors, which were more or less fixed, made it very difficult from the beginning for the US government to take effective action to prevent atrocities in Syria, even compared with other challenging policy contexts."
"It wasn't his fault. Stop picking on the Lightbringer!"
A message on the museum’s website said: "Last week the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide released a research study that examined several decision points during the Syrian conflict. Since its release, a number of people with whom we have worked closely on Syria since the conflict’s outbreak have expressed concern
...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended...
s with the study. The Museum has decided to remove the study from its website as we evaluate this feedback."

The report used computational modeling and game theory methods, as well as interviews with experts and policymakers, to determine that US involvement in the wake of the 2013 chemical weapons attack in Ghouta would not have reduced atrocities in the country and may have contributed to them, according to Tablet.

Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Scourge of Qusayr...
 has attacked with poison gas and sent to prison camps tens of thousands of Syrians since his country’s civil war began six years ago.

Abraham Foxman, the director of the Center of the Study of Anti-Semitism at the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the History, told Tablet that the museum leadership must have determined it "made a misstep" in undertaking the report, pointing out that the genocide has not yet ended and that such a judgment is beyond the museum’s mandate.
Yes.
Foxman, who noted that he served three times on the Holocaust Commission, also said, "I believe that it’s appropriate ‐ indeed, it’s imperative ‐ for the museum to deal with questions of genocide in contemporary current events."

Longstanding critics of B.O. regime foreign policy noted on social media that at the end of his term, Barack Obama
I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money...
appointed to the Holocaust museum board a slew of White House staffers, including some involved in the Syria decisions, and questioned whether this influenced the study.
Given the habitual behaviours of that lot, it seems very highly likely.
Tablet pointed out that the study was launched before the appointments.
Yes, but they knew who was doing the appointing.
Some of the board members who had formerly worked for the B.O. regime said they were not aware of details of the report until its completion.
And the others?
Holocaust museum board members are not typically involved in its day-to-day activities.
No doubt that's true, but these were not typical board appointees.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  More like RICO inside the Beltway.
Posted by: Pappy   2017-09-07 13:10  

#1  Once the leftards started erasing and destroying symbols of history, the flood gates were opened. Darlings of the left don't escape from their own meddling with history and legacies.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-09-07 11:06  

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