Where's The Outrage Over CHRISTIANS Being Killed? | CNSNews.com
There was something about the way Hillary Clinton said it that touched a nerve.
“People are dying,” the Secretary of State said forcefully and finally – with an emphasis on the word “dying” that can only be born of outrage.
She was talking about Syria and the brutal repression by embattled President Bashar al-Assad against a popular uprising – an uprising that Clinton and President Obama hope leads to the toppling of the Assad regime.
The comment came during a June 13 press conference at the State Department as Clinton stood at a podium next to the Indian foreign minister, answering a hand-full of questions from an international press corps.
There she was, a prominent member of the administration using the bully pulpit on behalf of human rights – in this case, the right of people not to be killed wantonly for their political beliefs.
She has said the same thing about Syria and Assad at other State Department news conferences that I have attended.
It was the same idea she expressed on May 24, when she finally released – albeit three months late -- the 2011 Human Rights Report, a yearly report that documents the state of human rights and human rights abuses in the nations of the world.
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