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Originally Posted by Catfish
Exactly. Refugees are the symptom. But the countries having caused the initial desease, do not show much will to cure it, and do not show much energy against the symptoms either.
Other than to leave this embarrassing outcome to others.
Bush once called the nations supporting the invasion of Iraq the "coalition of the willing". If i remember right, Poland was a member, too, like the UK. And Turkey, and Poland, and Romania, and Denmark ... not Germany, and not France. Which is why "Pommes Frites" have been renamed to "Freedom fries", if i remember right. I guess we were the Nazis, as usual.
Now it is the the coalition of the unwilling.
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You'll get no argument from me on that point, The U.S. is currently doing nothing more in the region other than maintaining the current "status Quo", and until she decides whether she's going to fish or cut bait, the EU is going to have a refugee problem. It might behoove Europe to put more pressure on the U.S. to jump start the process.
as an aside: any EU country that didn't see the mass exodus out of North Africa and the Middle East back in 2011 was napping.