Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
Don't have much time, but, you mean set up military bases in every war zone?
Isn't that basically the same as colonizing half the world again?
Sounds like Kad was arguing more for an Aid-Station-cum-Embassy than a military base, it's a bit much for you to make that jump.

Hi basic point is sound - importing refugees is liable to create more refugees as the fit able and useful will be most able to flee and subsequently resettle the countries in question will suffer an increasing "brain drain" which will, critically, cause their civil society to collapse along with their educational establishment. This is not a theory it's fact embodied in Somali and Afghanistan, and to a lesser extent even in countries like Pakistan and India.

The NHS runs on Indian doctors and even accounting for India's excellent education system and huge population that still means fewer doctors per capita in India. Now consider a country like Somalia, where pretty much all the professionals got out in the early nineties and settled in Europe or the US. True, some of them are now going back but everyone else has has two decades of virtually no society outside Somaliland and Puntland.