Michelle Obama gave the weekly “Presidential Address”, dealing with the kidnapped Nigerian girls.
Here’s her hashtag approach to the problem from a few days ago:
Here is a transcript of her speech:
Hello everyone, I’m Michelle Obama, and on this Mother’s Day weekend, I want to take a moment to honor all the mothers out there and wish you a Happy Mother’s Day.
I also want to speak to you about an issue of great significance to me as a First Lady, and more importantly, as the mother of two young daughters.
Like millions of people across the globe, my husband and I are outraged and heartbroken over the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian girls from their school dormitory in the middle of the night.
This unconscionable act was committed by a terrorist group determined to keep these girls from getting an education – grown men attempting to snuff out the aspirations of young girls.
And I want you to know that Barack has directed our government to do everything possible to support the Nigerian government’s efforts to find these girls and bring them home.
In these girls, Barack and I see our own daughters. We see their hopes, their dreams – and we can only imagine the anguish their parents are feeling right now.
Many of them may have been hesitant to send their daughters off to school, fearing that harm might come their way.
(To keep reading, you can go to the WH website for the remainder; expect more of the same).
No, Barack has not directed our government to do everything possible, his stock phrase in trade, anymore than he directed our government to do “everything possible” to save our men in Benghazi. If that were so, where is the military response in either case?
This isn’t just about “snuffing out the aspirations of young girls”. It’s about killing anything Western and anything Christian by radical Islamists, Boko Haram.
There is no negotiating with them. There is no reasonable approach to people whose whole purpose is to kill you. You cannot talk them out of it, they will not be nice if you are “nice” to them.
You can only eliminate the threat, as early and as forcefully as you can. Anything less is an invitation to more terror.