The inescapable reality of the refugee crisis

Sep 9, 2015, 12:04 PM

http://www.nationalreview.com/middle-east-refugee-crisis-past-and-future

Anyone with a sense of decency and humanity would want to help those who have been through harrowing experiences and have arrived, exhausted and desperate, on the shores of Europe.

But the story will not end there, if they do.

With refugees, as with all other human beings, the current generation will pass from the scene.

Those who may be grateful to have found a refuge from the horrors of the Middle East will have a new generation of children in Europe, or in any other place of refuge, who will have no memory of the Middle East.

All the new generation will know is that they are not doing as well as other people in the country where they live.

They will also know that the values of their culture clash with the values of the Western culture around them.

The inescapable reality is that it is an irreversible decision to admit a foreign population of any sort — but especially a foreign population that has a track record of remaining foreign.

And there will be no lack of “leaders” to tell them that they have been wronged, including some who will urge them to jihad.

No nation has an unlimited capacity to absorb immigrants of any sort, and especially immigrants whose cultures are not simply different, but antagonistic, to the values of the society in which they settle.

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the US did not need any troops to stay behind. In fact, it was his campaign promise to pull US forces out of Iraq.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/11/obama-adjusts-iraq-narrative-now-blames-george-w-b/?page=all

Obama adjusts Iraq narrative, now blames Bush for troop withdrawal:

The president who spent years touting the withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Iraq suddenly has had to distance himself from that action.

At the White House on Saturday morning — less than 48 hours after authorizing airstrikes against Islamist militants and humanitarian air drops to save the lives of trapped Iraqi civilians — President Obama blamed his predecessor, George W. Bush, for the absence of American troops in Iraq and rejected the assertion that he could have left a small peacekeeping force in the war-torn nation.

He uttered those after three years, and a successful re-election campaign, in which the full removal of U.S. forces from Iraq was cast as this White House’s most significant foreign policy achievement and one Mr. Obama had promised all the way back to the earliest days of his first presidential campaign in 2008.

The inescapable reality of the refugee crisis

.....is that we broke the Middle East, and didn't fix it.***

we broke it?

Re: we broke it?

Re: we broke it?

One thing is for certain......

I'm not sure anyone can say that with 100% confidence***

The Pottery Barn rule

So it was "fixed" at some recent point in the past?!?***

Perhaps it was more of a big pile of poop.

Could be...the Obama admin change of strategy there...

Yeah Iraq was really just success after success until 2009.***

It certainly had turned around big time....

He wanted to leave around 10,000 special forces/advisers...

So what is Obama doing back in there?***

Iraqi government asked for help

But Obama said everything was under control and

is quagmire considered a "victory?"

When one chooses not to play with poop from the beginning

because one does not smear the poop...does not...

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