Quote Originally Posted by Sir Moody View Post
... what

This spectacular display of ignorance forced me out of self imposed lurking.

There are currently 2 Major conflicts raging in North Africa (the South Sudan Civil war and the Boko Harem insurgency) and numerous smaller conflicts including the ever worsening situation in Libya and the Somali civil war which has been on and off again since 1991).

On the Pakistan front there is open fighting with the Taliban and constant US drone bombing along with an increase in repression of Pakistan's Christian minority (including several death sentences for "heresy" and numerous cases of lynchings)

Honestly he is entirely right - what the German Government did was neither here no there - the refugees were already on the move and en-route - Germany was left with only had 2 choices, welcome them or close the borders.

The current situation on the Greek/Serbian border should show how option 2 was never a good plan.
Oh yes, I forgot how the drones are carpetbombing cities which causes the population to have to flee all the way to Europe. The Somali civil war only affects half the country and the people in the unsafe half can then easily travel to the safe half. Did you know that India recently due to community rioting had over 2 million citizens being internally displaced refugees? How many of those fled to Europe again?
And do go on explaining how those conflicts result in people fleeing from Eritrea, Ethiopia etc. A large quantity of the people trying to enter Europe are opportunistic fortune seekers. Which is not an inherently bad thing, but lets not label them as refugees and spend all of our money babying them while we leave the actual refugee camps underfunded.