Chancellor Merkel keeps open-gate policy, outrage breaks out

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hershel_layton said:

setsunatenshi said:
sure, take the refugees, but at the very least take the landmass of Syria too. At least there will be a long term solution to place back the refugees once the conflict is over.

yes, it's simplistic, but it seems like a pro active solution to all this mess.

The Syrians tried to take Syria back from Al-Assad- it lead to the Syrian war.

 

I don't see how we can possibly take Syria without causing even MORE issues.

I did put it in an over simplistic way, but let's say if there was ever a justification for a land invasion of any middle eastern 'country', this would be it. There was no mass exodus from Afghanistan or Iraq that could justify those 2 absurd invasions.

Now, on the other hand, you have the entire population of a country fleeing to neighboring countries. At some point that has to mean the land is up for grabs. You could bet your ass if they had oil or other natural resources there would have been no short list of candidates to ocupy the place.

In my oppinion it would be better to squash the daesh in there, rather than let their infection spread. Supposedly there has been some military progress, but once some sort of success has been achieved it would be good to return the Syrian citizens to their country, help them rebuild actual schools, not madrassas, and perhaps things could get back to normal.

Yes, it would have costs, but doing nothing will have greater costs in the long run.