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No matter how heartwarmingly good this appears, it's terribly misguided. This approach does not scale. You simply cannot provide hundreds of thousands of refuge
by Tharre 10y ago
No matter how heartwarmingly good this appears, it's terribly misguided. This approach does not scale. You simply cannot provide hundreds of thousands of refugees with food, shelter and education in a 1st world country. We have all seen what even a few of them do to countries: mass xenophobia, terror and rising popularity of right-wing parties.
If we truly wanted to help these people and make a difference then the best thing we can do is provide local refugee camps with the resources to take care of their greatest needs. They know much better than we ever could what is needed. Hell, we can't even communicate with many of them, as many don't speak English and we have far too little translators.
And meanwhile we need to actually tackle many of the root problems of why we're in this hole mess to begin with. Solving many of those are hard, others not so much. For example, could we please stop selling those countries weapons to kill themselves with?
- 3131s 10y ago> For example, could we please stop selling those countries weapons to kill themselves with? But as Wolf Blitzer so astutely pointed out on CNN, that would deeply impact the bottom line of America's 'defense' contractors! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk0TqIbPNbY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk0TqIbPNbY
- internaut 10y ago> we need to actually tackle many of the root problems We have frequently shifting national moods so why is it a surprise our foreign policy behaves as if it has a multiple personality disorder? If one was a cynic they might suggest this was a subversive policy for one system to cause systemic instability outside of its borders.