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Old 04-15-2018, 07:11 AM
 
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I don't get the logic or lack of. Either do both or neither.
"Refugees" don't get to skip to the country of their choosing. To qualify for refugee status you can only go to the next adjacent country. There is no US border with Syria. The same goes for illegals in latin America. Mexico is the bordering country, not the United States.
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Old 04-15-2018, 07:14 AM
 
Location: Here and now.
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Why would we want refugees?
If our actions are helping to create them, what we "want" isn't the issue. Or at least, it shouldn't be.
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Old 04-15-2018, 07:14 AM
 
Location: Montgomery County, PA
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I don't get the logic or lack of. Either do both or neither.
Who said bombs help refugees? It was meant to "punish" Assad, which it did not do of course. New tents might, but not bombs. By your logic we need to bring in every refugee in the world.
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Old 04-15-2018, 07:17 AM
 
Location: Maryland
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If our actions are helping to create them, what we "want" isn't the issue. Or at least, it shouldn't be.
People EXACTLY LIKE THEM are creating them. Why would we want that here?
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Old 04-15-2018, 07:18 AM
 
Location: Morrison, CO
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If our actions are helping to create them, what we "want" isn't the issue. Or at least, it shouldn't be.
Let them go to a neighboring country. We don't need them here, nor do we have a responsibility to bring them here. Where did the refugees go when we were invading Europe during WWII?
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Old 04-15-2018, 07:20 AM
 
Location: Phoenix
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I don't get the logic or lack of. Either do both or neither.
Trump is correct on both fronts.
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Old 04-15-2018, 07:43 AM
 
Location: Former land of plenty
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Bomb, yes, refugees, no.

The signature of a true neo-con chicken hawk.

The swamp was never drained.
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Old 04-15-2018, 07:45 AM
 
Location: Boston
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is killing the unborn the foundation for all liberal thought?
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Old 04-15-2018, 07:48 AM
 
Location: City Data Land
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I don't get the logic or lack of. Either do both or neither.
Correct. Trump doesn't care about Syria. He cares about looking good to himself. Everything he does revolves around his enormous ego. I doubt he even cares about pandering to his base anymore. He has the White House; there's no higher office to achieve, and he's so narcissistic he believes he will get a second term no matter what he does. I was reading an article in the New York Times last night. It discussed the lack of clear objectives in Syria. So he bombed it. What now? What did this accomplish exactly? I doubt Trump even knows himself.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/14/u...e=sectionfront
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Old 04-15-2018, 07:51 AM
 
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The same reasons we are dropping bombs there.
What are those reasons?

I believe by dropping bombs would help stop the hostilities so people there would not become refugees.

Your reasoning makes no sense.
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