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Iran is political.  Similarly, Saudi is not on the list, but should be.  I will admit I am not up on the Pakistan conflict, but I don't believe we are heavily involved.  There is no reason to think people from that region would be looking to attack the US.  

They had not been destabilized yet with massive drone bombings.  They are at the moment relatively stable countries.

He is targeting countries that have jihadist activity.  This is mostly due to Obama / Clinton destabilizing a lot of the Middle East with drone strikes, shipping opposition forces arms, etc.  The previous admin created a cluster-####.  Who can blame Trump for trying to lock it all down for a bit...

The ones not involved in jihadist activity, but keep believing your conspiracy theory.

Hence the 5 largest Muslim countries are not on the ban list.  

There is no Muslim ban.  How hard is this to get?  It's a 7 country ban.

TEMPORARY BAN - Approve the cabinet people and these things can proceed like normal.

They really need to arrest the protestors.  That has no business inside airports.  Since most of these protests are in the baggage areas (where outsiders can access), how hard would it be to drop a backpack bomb during all this mayhem?  If there are not laws on the books, hopefully they will be...

I believe a President can restrict access to countries.  Obama did it with Iraq.  Carter did it as well.  This is a temporary ban aimed directly at jihadist zones.  To argue this is a Muslim ban is a big reach when the top 5 Muslim countries (Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and Nigeria)...

I am actually good with the stay as it talks more of the quick nature of what Trump did (with no plan to handle those in transit).  I don't think the ACLU (or courts) will be able to overturn the EO though.    

Looks like a new EO is needed.  Felony arrest for protesting at an airport.

who protests at an airport terminal?  That's a great way to go to jail for a long time.

Iran was political nonsense as Doctor Detroit said earlier.  Just like omitting Saudi Arabia was.  I don't mind what Trump has done here, but I hate the execution of this.  It's clumsy and has created a lot of limbo situations.  Perhaps he has intel that something is imminent.  

Back in the real world, these facts exist: 1. Obama lobs tens of thousands of drone strikes into the Middle East creating much ill-will against the US. 2. Dems stall approving key cabinet positions. 3. Trump puts a temporary hold on immigration until such time that he has his cabinet and they...

He has promised to allow those to be waterboarded to have a life jacket on thereby decreasing the chance of drowning.