Retired General: U.S. Should Admit More Iraqi Refugees

This blog has long been covering the story of tens of thousands Iraqi refugees, including many who worked with or for U.S. military forces, who have been displaced by the war.  Last Friday, Joseph P. Hoar, a retired Marine general, commander in chief of the United States Central Command from 1991 to 1994, published a commentary in the N.Y. Times, contending that a U.S. response to the refugee crisis is vital to our national security:  “Continuing indifference to suffering that we had a strong hand in causing will turn our Muslim supporters against us. More important, it repudiates the fundamental values of our country and costs Iraqis their lives.”  General Hoar advocates the admission of more Iraqi refugees by the United States.  He talked about his op-ed on NPR. 

In 2004, PBS interviewed General Hoar about the war in Iraq on “Frontline.”

KJ