These are the words of our President, "When a little boy is kidnapped, turned into a child soldier, forced to kill or be killed -- that's slavery, it is barbaric, and it is evil, and it has no place in a civilized world. Now, as a nation, we've long rejected such cruelty."
These are the actions of our President - Obama issued a presidential memorandum waiving penalties under the Child Soldiers Protection Act of 2008 for Libya, South Sudan, and Yemen, penalties that Congress put in place to prevent U.S. arms sales to countries determined by the State Department to be the worst abusers of child soldiers in their militaries. The president also partially waived sanctions against the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
This should be a major story! It's a clear and direct case of actions being the opposite of words regarding a revolting and evil act. There are no excuses for this. Yes, the administration has some, but no excuse can justify such blatant hypocrisy between words and actions. This president has no honour, and speaks no truth.
On Nástrand [Strand of the Dead] is a great hall and evil, and its doors face to the north: it is all woven of serpent-backs like a wattle-house; and all the snake-heads turn into the house and blow venom, so that along the hall run rivers of venom; and they who have broken oaths, and murderers, wade those rivers, even as it says here:
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- I know a hall standing
- far from the sun,
- In Nástrand:
- the doors to northward are turned;
- Venom-drops falls
- down from the roof-holes;
- That hall is bordered
- with backs of serpents.
- There are doomed to wade
- the weltering streams
- Men that are mansworn,
- and they that murderers are.
- far from the sun,
- I know a hall standing
