Posted on 12/05/2007 12:58:43 PM PST by Lorianne
DAMASCUS, Syria—If only Iraqi refugees were returning to their homeland because they believed it is now safe. If only the reported boom in crossings at the Syrian-Iraqi border really meant that relieved returnees were eagerly going home. Alas, while some Iraqis decided to end their forced exile this fall, their decision had at least as much to do with the deteriorating situation in their host country as with improved conditions in their homeland.
The phenomenon seems to affect only those Iraqis stranded in Syria. I spent most of November in the Middle East; among Iraqi refugees in Jordan and among the internally displaced Iraqis in semiautonomous Iraqi Kurdistan, I did not encounter any traces of the "going home" mood that is palpable here in Syria.
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Why are Iraqi refugees returning home from Syria? .....so they don’t get bombed by Israel?..............
Leave it to Slate to get it wrong.
Oh so it isn’t that the surge is working. I guess that Murtha is just another Bushie in disguise. </sarcasm>
Leave it to Slate to explain away people returning home to Iraq. Poor dears are in a desperate world of hurt these days, what with the situation in Iraq going far better than they could have imagined, or hoped.
People don’t return to areas where they think they are likely to die. They go somewhere else.
Because Syria really sucks.
If only American liberals were rooting for America to win.
if only American liberals would fell to syria....a country they have more in common with....
Reminds me of when I got home on leave just when Katrina hit New Orleans and then Rita bore down on Houston at Cat 5 strength (before she turned). I was terrified and fervently wished to be back in Baghdad where I'd be safe. ;-)
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