Isn't it a type of arrogance to say that the United States is the only country where anyone could want to live?
Other countries have the right to be ambitious to be functioning democracies, and to want to overthrow dictators, and we should help them.
How can we resettle millions of people? Who could do that? What about their culture? What about the splintering of their national identity?
Also; they're modern people, aren't they? They're not illiterate or incapable. Empathy is nothing to be discarded, but I think that maybe the attitude that they can't do anything other than languish and be pitied is. Is there any humanitarian aid that's earmarked to giving them something productive to do, wherever they are?
No expense should be spared for them to have viable living conditions and appropriate medical care; I don't know how anyone can disagree with that.
If stadiums and villages can be built for the Olympics, how can anyone say that displaced people can't have viable, temporary living situations? What about temporary hospitals and schools?
Copyright L. Kochman, April 4, 2017 @ 10:51 p.m.
