Why is Chad left Hanging?

[CalMeacham]

For some reason, Chad is included in Trump’s new travel ban. Experts don’t know why:

Why has Trump restricted visas from Chad? Experts are puzzled

LONDON — President Donald Trump’s decision to include Chad in the latest travel ban has baffled experts who are wondering why the African nation was chosen over others in the region.

The new presidential order renews restrictions on five of the six countries previously targeted — Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen — and adds North Korea, Venezuela and Chad. Sudan has dropped off the list.

“It’s a head-scratcher and also strange for diplomatic reasons,” Michael Shurkin, a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, said. “In terms of security, Chad is actually relatively capable.”

Out of all the countries in the Sahel, as that area of Africa is known, Chad has a reasonably close partnership with the U.S.

It has cooperated extensively in the fight against terror, and specifically against the African terror group Boko Haram. This summer, Chad hosted for the third time a 20-nation military exercise, organized by the U.S. African Command, aimed at strengthening local security forces. And the U.S. recently opened a new $300 million embassy in the capital, N’Djamena.

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Trump’s proclamation said that “Chad does not adequately share public-safety and terrorism-related information and fails to satisfy at least one key risk criterion.”

It also mentioned the presence of several terrorist groups in the region, including elements of Boko Haram, ISIS-West Africa, and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
Analysts say these factors are present in a number of countries both in Africa and around the world and are not unique to Chad.

[kferr]

Maybe he thought he was banning Nickelback?

[commasense]

Why is Chad left hanging?

Probably because some guy named Chad gave Trump a wedgie when they were in boarding school.

[FordPrefect]

Probably because they hacked the 2000 US Presidential elections.

[Riemann]

A $300 million dollar embassy? That’s 3% of the GDP of Chad. How is that possible?

[AK84]

Black and majority muslim. And they have oil. They should thank their lucky stars that Trump did not nuke them.

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

Yeah, but Sudan and lots of other North African countries are black and majority Muslim, yet Trump doesn’t seem to care.

[Little_Nemo]

@Really_Not_All_That_Bright

Yeah, but Sudan and lots of other North African countries are black and majority Muslim, yet Trump doesn’t seem to care.

Chad may have been the only one whose name Trump could remember.

[Death_of_Rats]

Trump has spent a lot of time on Reddit’s Incel board and knows how bad “Chads” are.

[wguy123]

@FordPrefect

Probably because they hacked the 2000 US Presidential elections.

Is Al Gore an advisor to trump now?

[TroutMan]

@Really_Not_All_That_Bright

Yeah, but Sudan and lots of other North African countries are black and majority Muslim, yet Trump doesn’t seem to care.

Give him time.

[John_Mace]

I was baffled by North Korea. Do we not already have a a ban on travel from there? If not, why not?

[AK84]

@Little_Nemo

Chad may have been the only one whose name Trump could remember.

Nigeria was on the list, but then Trump got an email saying a long lost Great Uncle had left him money.

Niger was taken off since he had promised Kelly-Ann he would not use the N-Word again.

Sudan was removed for the same reason; McMaster told him what the name means.

[ElvisL1ves]

@John_Mace

I was baffled by North Korea. Do we not already have a a ban on travel from there?

Yes. But they’re not a Muslim country, like the others, so it was an easy way to distract from this latest version of his Muslim ban.

[Gorsnak]

@AK84

Black and majority muslim. And they have oil. They should thank their lucky stars that Trump did not nuke them.

You don’t nuke countries with oil. You invade, install a puppet government, hand out sweetheart deals to your oil companies, and rob the place blind. Sheesh, don’t you know anything about colonialism?

[John_Mace]

@ElvisL1ves

Yes. But they’re not a Muslim country, like the others, so it was an easy way to distract from this latest version of his Muslim ban.

Could very well be. I’m sure they purposely put a few non-Muslim countries on the list, and maybe NK was just an easy one to add that couldn’t provoke any additional controversy.

[ElvisL1ves]

Same reason Dubya added them to the “Axis of Evil”.

[Little_Nemo]

@AK84

Sudan was removed for the same reason; McMaster told him what the name means.

Trump interrupted him and said “I know what it means. It’s when you do something quickly.”

[Buck_Godot]

Could be anything. Maybe the president of Chad got three scoops of ice cream at the UN banquet while Trump only got two.

[Czarcasm]

Maybe “Yesterday’s Gone” was playing in the background when he showed up alone at the Senior Prom?