Posted on 10/22/2015 6:55:47 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
So long as the Syrian civil war grinds on and the Islamic State continues expanding its footprint, desperate refugees will keep flowing from places like Syria. Unfortunately, addressing the root causes of either the Syrian conflict or the rise of ISIS is beyond the scope of what the United States and its allies can reasonably do. Calls on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to negotiate with rebel fighters have proven wholly ineffective to date, while greater military involvement in Syria is neither wise nor justified on U.S. national-security grounds.
But as horrifying as it has been, the refugee crisis offers the outlines of a new strategyone both morally superior to the current do-little approach and practically superior to additional military intervention. In short, the United States and its European allies should plan to take in all refugees fleeing violence in Syria, with the help of other willing nations around the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
The liberal death wish in full cry.
Trevor Thrall is a senior fellow for the Cato Institutes Defense and Foreign Policy Department. Thrall is an associate professor at George Mason University in the Department of Public & International Affairs and the Director of the Graduate Program in Biodefense. He teaches courses in international security, political communication, and U.S. military intervention. His recently edited book, American Foreign Policy and the Politics of Fear: Threat Inflation since 9/11 (Routledge 2009), examined why and how the Bush administration was able to build public support for the war in Iraq in 2003. The companion volume to that work, Why Did the United States Invade Iraq? (Routledge 2011), collects competing explanations about why the administration decided to go to war in the first place.
Prior to arriving at George Mason, Dr. Thrall was an associate professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn where he directed the Master of Public Policy and Master of Public Administration programs. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
LOL. This article isn’t real. Come on.
How about @#$@#$ em and no.
the picture of the shot dead “migrant” in Eastern Europe didn’t even stop the stride of my spoon as I ate my Lucky Charms.
I dont care what happens to them. As long as it’s not here.
ISIS is launching condom bombs. Russia must be Slaughtering them!!!
Richard Gatling was a great American inventor. He invented a tool that border crossing agents could utilize against invasion.
No. The Syrian wimps that allow islamo filth to run their lives deserve no protection. Kill the islamo trash that oppresses you and then we’ll talk.
Who’s going to rebuild Syria if everyone is dead or leaves
There are no Syrian refugees.
Mussies want to kill Westerners but it’s our fault they’ll starve and all if we don’t let them in. Liberal logic at it’s best.
This is an insane article. Bring all the jihadis and their problems into this country, instead of fixing the problem where they are at and keeping them there.
Insane. The author has succumbed to the false premise that “all the people all over the world are all the same”.
Utterly false.
Repatriate the Moslems back home - or to any of the 57 countries they’ve already taken over. ASAP !
Christians, Jews, and Hindus get the first clearance...
Not just no but HELL NO!
Yes, send them straight to our Soyent Green factory...
“A. TREVOR THRALL”
ID. E. OTT.
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