Suzie sums up my thoughts on this perfectly. This is a matter of humanity.
It’s rare that I comment or share opinion on political issues. I generally adopt what I would consider to be a liberal perspective on most things, and ultimately, I believe that everyone deserves the right to live how they choose in a safe, healthy and happy place.
As Europe is divided over the waves of thousands of refugees desperately fleeing war in Africa and the Middle East, there is one image that will forever stay in my mind – that of Aylan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler whose body washed up on a Turkish beach on Tuesday. The picture has been beamed all over the world and has become a symbol for the worst refugee crisis since World War II.
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Been listening to this on NPR here. It’s so sad. In addition to welcoming refugees, I wish we could do something about the despotic regimes that send people fleeing from their homelands.
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Agreed… although the irony is that propping up those despotic regimes, as we have done for years in Syria, Libya, Iraq (pre Gulf War), is actually a lesser evil (certainly in terms of numbers of deaths and forced relocations) than allowing them to fall. Democracy has a bloody birth
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So true.
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