[Catfish]

Well what's true is that certain "first world" action in the "third world" and middle east did not make it especially easier for people to live and strive there, with infrastructure like roads, schools and hope for a future destroyed. is Iran really better off now than with Sadddam Hussein? Or Libya without Ghaddafi? Afghanistan? China got out after the opium blackmail by pure chance, but living there with its consequences is not especially positive either by western standards. Action usually incites a reaction.

Some people try to build a future elsewhere, like here, if they can get there. Perfectly understandable. What is surprising is that most of them are peaceful after what happened to their country done by the very states that intervened in theirs, with so relatively few nutjobs being among them. I especially adore the english notion of anti-immigration after they invaded almost the whole world and did a lot of slave trade, but hey which nation is without guilt.

I was in a hospital some months ago, met a man from Syriah. Syriah has a bad leader one might say, like Iran and others, but also these current or temporary governments have a history of how the today's situation happened, from the Shah to big oil.

"Syria is home to diverse ethnic and religious groups, including the majority Syrian Arabs, Kurds, Turkmens, Assyrians, Armenians, Circassians, Mandeans, and Greeks. Religious groups include Sunnis, Christians, Alawites, Druze, Isma'ilis, Mandeans, Shiites, Salafis, and Yazidis. Arabs are the largest ethnic group, and Sunnis are the largest religious group."

They got along well enough for quite some time. There were more wars within Europe in the last hundred hundred years than there.

He was a muslim of course, also explained some 'Islam things' to me that i did not understand or know. He showed me photos of his house before and after the bombing that killed his family except him and his wife, this time by russian jets. Assad is a big fan of them, because they secure his ruling.

His house was in the outskirts of Damascus, the second concrete floor of his house had collapsed by a near bomb and had buried his family. Most parts of the inner city had already been flattened by various foreign countries. He had a store producing medical components in the city, which was also destroyed, as was the hospital he had worked in. Damascus was founded some 3000 years before Christ, but there is not much left of it by now, a lot of historical sites destroyed.

After a restart seemed impossible (certain groups of people are also the target of Assad's militia searching for scapegoats, anyone would fit, but especially people with a better education). So he asked for visa for him and his wife, and barely got out of this mess alive, to Germany. He was not really welcomed, but managed to get along and get a job at the MHH in Hannover, where he had to repeat some exams and became a doctor, again.

Re the OP, maybe french right-wing Mari(n)e LePen has some certain bad words for foreigners, but then i have a few words for her or those courageous letter-generals.