Posted on 09/04/2015 4:21:07 PM PDT by Kaslin
Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley thinks the U.S. response to the Syrian refugee crisis isn’t strong enough. President Obama has proposed taking in between 5,000 and 8,000 refugees this year. But O’Malley believes we need to admit nearly 10 times that number.
“I support the call from humanitarian and refugee organizations for the United States to accept at least 65,000 Syrian refugees next year,” he said in a statement Friday. “If Germany — a country with one-fourth our population — can accept 800,000 refugees this year, certainly we — the nation of immigrants and refugees — can do more.”Syrian refugees are flooding Europe following the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Syrians due to ethnic violence in the Middle East. The migrant crisis has engulfed Europe, leading many to ask whether the U.S. would take refugees from the continued fighting in Syria.
O’Malley said the number of refugees the U.S. is scheduled to accept next year is insufficient.
“Americans are a generous and compassionate people. But today our policies are falling short of those values. We must do more to support Syrian refugees — and we must certainly welcome more than the proposed 5,000 to 8,000 refugees next year,” he said.
The former Maryland governor said images such as that of a toddler’s body washing up on a Turkish beach should motivate the U.S. to do more.
“With more than 4 million Syrian refugees fleeing war and famine, they now comprise the second-largest refugee population in the world. As Europe is becoming increasingly aware, we are not immune from the injustices and tragedies that unfold outside our borders.” he said.
While we should recognize that this is a global problem brought about, at least partly, by the lack of leadership of the U.S. in Syria, Libya, and other conflict areas in the Middle East and Africa, the bottom line remains we can’t help everybody. The Middle East is being emptied of human beings because rancid people are doing very bad things to their own citizens, and terrorists are doing even worse things to others. The fact is, however, there are safer places for these refugees closer to home. It’s just that the fantastically rich Gulf states — and let’s include our newfound friends in Tehran — are refusing to be part of the solution and continue to be part of the problem.
The Gulf states are financing Muslim extremists all across the region, hoping to by them off so that the contagion will bypass their fabulously wealthy monarchies. They have no intention of importing hundreds of thousands of desperate Muslims who may upset the precarious balance maintained by ruthless force in their countries. They have the room. They have the cash. But they lack the courage to do what’s right and thus wait upon the western democracies to become guilty enough to take them all.
In truth, 65,000 refugees is a drop in the bucket compared to the numbers of people who sneak in illegally to the U.S. every year. But accepting that many refugees would only invite an exodus to our shores. The human smugglers are resourceful and clever. And while the ships used to make the short crossing from Africa to Greece or Turkey would never stand the gaff of a cross-Atlantic trip, welcoming so many migrants would only encourage the traffickers to find ways to reach our shores.
The numbers crossing over to Europe are growing with no end in sight. Unless a quick end is found for the Syrian civil war and a strategy is devised to deal effectively with ISIS, we risk a humanitarian calamity the likes of which have not been seen in modern times.
How much is Hillary paying him ?
Okay, but keep them Christians out.
ROFLMAO!!!
This guy really wants to be President doesn’t he????
ROFLMAO!!!
I believe he does
That was my thought too
Yeah, don’t give him any ideas
Off course, what else?
Excellent point
Uh, oh. Here we go
You can’t lose what you never had.
Let's put them all in Annapolis.
Is Jamal behind this?
Not only should we NOT accept any more Moslems into the USA, we should declare Islam a terrorist organization, outlaw Islam in America, and round up every Moslem in America and send them back to the shithole country they came FRom!
I am sick and tired of these LIEberal assholes intentionally ruining the finest country ever to exist on the face of the earth!
This morning, I got an email FRom a FRiend forwarding a speech supposedly given by Vladimir Putin to the Russian Duma. I checked with Snopes to verify it, and, Snopes said it was “FALSE” (http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/putinduma.asp).
However, I liked the message and phraseology of the speech, and have reworded it to be an American speech (Note, please, that the same speech could be addressed to ALL illegal immigrants, as well, and also note that it is not likely that you will EVER hear this speech given in public):
“In America live Americans. Any minority, from anywhere, if it wants to live in America, to work and eat in America, should speak English, and should respect American laws.
“If they prefer Sharia Law, and to live their life as a Moslem, then we advise them to go to those places where that’s the law. America neither needs nor wants Moslem minorities. Minorities need America, and we will not grant them special privileges, or try to change our laws to fit their desires, no matter how loud they yell ‘discrimination.’
“Americans will not tolerate disrespect of our American culture!
“We had better learn from the suicides of England, Holland and France (and other Western European countries) if we are to survive as a nation. The Moslems are taking over those countries, BUT THEY WILL NOT TAKE OVER AMERICA!
“American customs and traditions are not compatible with the lack of culture or the primitive ways of Sharia Law and Moslems.
“When American legislative bodies think of creating new laws, they should have in mind the American national interest first, observing that the Moslem minorities are not Americans.”
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