(My new American Thinker post)
As we debate "anchor babies" and the US-Mexico border,
Europeans are dealing with their own immigration problem.
They are coming
from places familiar to us, as
reported in The New York Times:
Roiling
everything in its path, a wave of tens of thousands of migrants and refugees —
many fleeing wars in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan — has worked its way up the
length of the Balkans in recent days. Like a
movable feast of despair, the mass of people has overwhelmed the authorities in
one stop after another, from the tiny Greek
island of Kos to impoverished
Macedonia, which declared
a state of emergency last week, and
now the train and bus stations of Serbia,
as they head north to their ultimate destinations in the richer nations of
the European
Union. The next
link on their route, almost inevitably, are towns like this one on the Hungarian
frontier with Serbia.
But Hungarian officials say they have a firm, if unwelcoming, answer to the
slow-motion tide: a fence.
These are war refugees, or people who can no longer live peacefully in
their homelands. The numbers are staggering, or 46,000! I doubt that a
fence is going to keep them out. They will go to another country.
Why are they looking for peace? The answer is complicated but two things
are certain:
1) ISIS is overwhelming city after city; and,
2) We walked out in 2011 to satisfy a silly campaign promise about ending
wars.
What war did we end? What peace did we create?
We left a vacuum and thousands of people can no longer live in their homes
of centuries.
Another tragic consequence of a failed foreign policy!
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