@sceptical guy wrote:
Nations have always taken small numbers of refugees, Trapper.
In the UK, we still have a Polish community of people who had fled the Nazis, and a thriving Jewish community of people who had fled the Tsarist pogroms in Russia over 100 years ago. I have no problem with these.
Do you?
We have to think in terms of the EU n this latest crisis. The region will eventually stabilise to its pre-iraq phase, unless we bomb and plunder them a bit more.
A bigger problem – apart from a government which feeds fear – is the human trafficking and the exploitation of migrants once they arrive here (and I include legal migrants) by unscrupulous British gangmasters.
It seems to be no longer small numbers though, perhaps human trafficking might explain that, greed and morality don’t really go hand in hand.
How long will stabilisation take.. can it stabilise .. Islamic State aren’t just going to moderate and the US particularly aren’t going to sit back and watch.