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originally posted by: earthling42
a reply to: Reallyfolks
Well that is obviously a problem, as i said we simply don't have a pile of houses and jobs nor a surplus of social funds, we had to cut spending with 56 billion a year to balance the budget.
700.000 people are without a job, so it will be quite a challenge to provide refugees and immigrants with their needs.
But the immigrants will be going to many countries in Europe, not only the Netherlands.
Apart from this, it should not only be Europe who takes in immigrants and refugees, The US, Canada, Australia should do a lot more that they are doing currently.
We don't have to expect any help from the gulf states since they are wary of people who are different than them.
Only if they are slaves, preferentially female of course.
originally posted by: James1982
originally posted by: Kali74
a reply to: Reallyfolks
Europe is having to come up with plans on the fly... why should they bear the brunt of the responsibility? This is a western created problem, in large part. Shouldn't the leader of the Western world be the ones helping the most?
One of the main contributing factors for the state of the mid-east is the fact that it was used as a stage to play out parts of the cold war. BOTH the Soviet Union AND the US have stuck their sticky fingers into that sandbox and caused mayhem for decades, if you place such blame on the west then you also need to demand Russia take half the responsibility here too or else you are guilty of hypocrisy.
If you go a little further back another major factor is when the Europeans (British and French actually) carved up territories and countries that didn't exist from the carcass of the Ottoman Empire, and forced people that don't get along or identify as kin to share the same country. This set the stage for a complete lack of stability (in the absence of authoritarian dictatorships) which, when combined with the anger from west/east meddling and the massive amount of arms left over from said meddling gives you the Mid East of today.
America could have put it's thumb up it's butt after the civil war and never touched the rest of the world, and the middle east would still be screwed up. Blaming America for the state of that region is like blaming the overflowing garbage can on the last person to put some trash on top. Yeah, they added to the problem, no you can't blame the huge trash heap on them.
Europe is lucky that America exists to absorb so much of the blame for the state of the modern world, their utter destruction during WWII gave them a lot of sympathy that seems to erase their long history of doing exactly what people hate America for. And because all their balls dropped off after WWII they get to sit back and act like they are goodie-two-shoes liberal utopia and blame America for all the ills of empire and colonialism after they all played that game and lost.
Fact is Europe doesn't have clean hands, they know it, that's why they are dealing with it. You're hatred of America is so obvious it bleeds into every subject you discuss, I have a deep and strong disgust for the American government and plenty of it's people, but I don't allow it to blind me to history.
originally posted by: InTheLight
originally posted by: muse7
a reply to: ElectricUniverse
We can start by getting the hell out of their countries and stop bombing them
Does that include ISIL stop bombing?
originally posted by: Reallyfolks
a reply to: ElectricUniverse
If they are that hungry they'll eat. Once a day bring out the boxes. If they keep refusing after so long divert the food elsewhere.
originally posted by: Reallyfolks
a reply to: ElectricUniverse
If they are that hungry they'll eat. Once a day bring out the boxes. If they keep refusing after so long divert the food elsewhere.
originally posted by: Gin
12 Christians thrown overboard to their deaths.
I hate when religion, praying in this case, turns people so violent.
originally posted by: ElectricUniverse
BTW. just to clarify, since it has happened in the past. I know that the red cross is not a Christian symbol, but for those refugees in the video it looks like it is.
I was about to prepare a speech, but you nailed it in a single sentence.
originally posted by: muse7
a reply to: ElectricUniverse
We can start by getting the hell out of their countries and stop bombing them