(July 23, 2016 at 2:45 pm)wallym Wrote:(July 23, 2016 at 1:57 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Refugees aren't shouting death to america. They're pleading for help.
Education is hard no matter who it is or how many there are...why then, would it be a reason to withhold the assistance that we are almost uniquely in a situation to offer?
I'll be the first to tell anyone who asks that I assume that I would find a great many refugees distasteful. Thing is, we're not even talking about refugees...we're immediately turning it into our terrorism obsession (itself more than a few miles past the mark of abject ignorance) and then pretending..or fooling ourselves into thinking..that we're talking about refugees.
I disagree on education. But we can leave that alone.
Terrorism is a factor. It's just another thing on the pile of reasons not to take the refugees. Maybe it's just our culture of risk aversion. We don't pick up hitchhikers. We don't let our kids play unsupervised. We tell them don't talk to strangers. We don't like refugees from places riddled with terrorists who'd love the opportunity to kill a few American civilians.
The selling point is "But we'd be helping those people." That's not enough for me, personally. Even with no terrorist factor, you're probably right. I think they're situation is such that it's in America's best interest for somebody else to take care of them. Similar to Finland saying "How about America take care of the Cubans." Since we have a large hispanic population already, and it's in our neck of the wood, I would agree with Finland on that. It's Europes backyard, and Saudi Arabia/Egypt/Jordan/etc... are right there.
They are living breathing human beings that are running from the very same thing. For them, it's asylum or die. Not enough for YOU?
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