Why Won’t Obama Speak Up for American Teen Abducted by Terrorists? Tags
25 Wednesday Jun 2014
Posted by Daniel Crane in Terrorism, US News, World News
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President Barack Obama should be speaking out boldly on behalf of an abducted American teenager in Israel and against his terrorist kidnappers, and the U.S. should be making it clear that the perpetrators are not going to get away with it, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee told CBN News.
Huckabee, who is currently in Israel, made his first stop on Sunday evening to visit the family of kidnapped American-Israeli citizen Naftali Fraenkel.
“This is one of our kids, you know, and you just have a sense of responsibility. We really do have, you know, not just sort of an interest—we have a responsibility because he has American citizenship,” Huckabee told CBN News.
Huckabee said Americans are concerned when children are kidnapped all over the world, as they were when 300 Nigerian girls were abducted recently by the terror group Boko Haram. But there’s more at stake with Fraenkel, he said, because he’s an American.
Huckabee said despite that the U.S. reaction has been weak and confusing.
“I want the President [Obama] to speak out. I want him to speak out boldly. I want to hear it from [Secretary of State] John Kerry,” Huckabee told CBN News.
“I don’t want to hear Jen Psaki from the State Department trot out this ridiculously idiotic statement saying we hope both sides will show ‘restraint’ because I want to ask her, ‘What are the two sides here?’” he challenged.
“On one hand you have a kidnapped American citizen and on the other hand you’ve got some evil, horrible people who would do it,” Huckabee said. “What restraint on behalf of the child should be shown?”
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