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© Copyright 2015 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Migrants from Turkey flood into Greece
By MIKE CORDER BODRUM, Turkey©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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JeffLee
Why is Europe obliged to take in people with attitudes like that?
warispeace
Some countries in Europe that supported the US war on and occupation of Iraq and the destabilization of the whole region have an obligation, as does the US, to accept these migrants and refugees.
JeffLee
@warispeace
While the Iraqi invasion was an idiotic decision, it must be pointed out relatively few are Iraqi. Many more are Syrian. The "destabilization" there is due to local Islamic groups trying to wrest power from a local dictator. Nearly all the other violence in the region as well as north africa and central Asia is similarly due to local or regional Islamists, which is triggering the outflux, plus the active human-trafficking business.
The West tried fighting them in a couple of countries, as we all know, and wasting its time and effort on things like girl's education. The West basically lost, gave up, and left, as demanded by the Iraqi prime minister among others. The problem is worsening in the absence of Western troops, not because of them.
theFu
Either the world makes these unsafe places "safe" for the people there, or we need to help them migrate their families to places that are safe so they don't loose hope, don't get forced into killing others and don't leave hoodlums in power. This is a world-wide responsibility - including Japan, the USA, China, and Europe. Southern Europe will be bearing the most of these costs, which will be a drag on their economics for the next 30 yrs with all the unskilled people arriving.
No matter how much it costs, solving the problem where it is will be cheaper.