"Why Don't Refugees Go Back To Where They Came From?"

[kpete]

[madaboutharry]

1. There is a cruelty that runs

in the veins of xenophobes.

[pampango]

7. Well said. Indeed, you don't see 'xenophobe' and 'compassion' in the same sentence very often.

That is why such fear is primarily a conservative phenomenon.

[Humanist_Activist]

2. The thing is, a lot of them will want to, months or years down the road, to rebuild what...

has been destroyed.

Others will settle elsewhere, mingle or not, and all sorts of other things occur.

This is why resettlement is important, it give refugees options they normally don't have access to. Safety and security, then deal with the rest later.

[Archae]

5. Months and years from now, ISIS and the Syrian goon squads will still be fighting.

And the US and Russia will gladly sell, (or give) weapons to them all.

[polly7]

6. +1000. nt.

[Cleita]

3. I have met many refugees over my lifetime all the way back to WWII.

All of them really wanted to go back an rebuild once it was safe to do so. As it is so often many got caught up in life, raising families and trying to survive so they didn't. But it wasn't that they didn't want to go back.

[Hydra]

4. Most people who are forced to emigrate because of war or economic destruction want to go back

Or to have never left. That's why I always argue that we need to see what we can do to help the people where they are. I don't always love where I live, but it's home.

[madokie]

8. correct me if I'm wrong

but isn't religion at the root of all this strife?

[pampango]

9. Partially. Popular antipathy for the "dictator for life" concept plays a role too. n/t

[malaise]

10. Yes and no because

there would never be this level of destruction without the profits associated with weapons of war.