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by relics443 3475 days ago
I in no way, expect our leaders to fix the situation in Syria. We have enough problems at home.

And the article highlighting similarities between the Holocaust and the Syrian civil war is sickening.

1. In the Holocaust, Jews were being hunted down and killed for no reason other than the fact that they were Jewish. Asad is murdering his own subjects indiscriminately. Are we supposed to just take in the entire Syrian country? I don't think he's purposely targeting Sunnis over Shiites or vice-a-versa (although I may be wrong in this regard) 2. There was no reason not to take Jews in. They don't have a publicly declared, religously mandated doctrine of hate for the West (especially the USA), or come from a society that is completely incompatible with Western society. I'm not saying every Muslim is like that, but even 10% of 2 billion is a lot...