Ahh, there you are. Did you see the NYT review on Snyder's "Black Earth"? http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/opinion/sunday/the-next-genocide.html
All those places are conflict torn if not war torn. So what if real people in need are not all from Syria? We already know they're not all from...
"All this, we again remind readers, just so a Qatari gas pipeline can cross Syria and enter Europe, ending Gazprom's monopoly over European gas...
That does fit your WASP world-view better, I'll admit.
"2 in 37" does make the situation sound small, but the impact can be measured differently: "Boko Haram has killed more than 17,000 people since...
No worries, I should have written it in third person.
I said "not you". Many of your points are correct, though I highly doubt "not one". In sociology, migration is analyzed in terms of push and...
Seriously? What, the combatants have to be in uniform, in rank and file, to make it "war"?
We've always had refugees and migrants. The current crisis is due to a surge in refugees. That doesn't mean the stream of migrants has been cut...
One thing war does is destroy economies. The people who leave to find a living elsewhere are still refugees.
The article does give other reasons which drive people from their homes.
Indeed. And there's war in Afghanistan, who knew?!
The refugee crisis: 9 questions you were too embarrassed to ask Updated by Max Fisher and Amanda Taub on September 9, 2015, 11:50 a.m. ET "There...
"19th century "Irish racism in Victorian Britain and 19th century United States included the stereotyping of the Irish as alcoholics, and...
This match may go to you, though I want to see what SA's response to the criticism is, first. So maybe I only shoot down 99% of AAA's statements. : )
Not sure if this was posted in this thread earlier, but it's recent and I just read it. The evidence suggests that, as is typical, conservatives...
Indeed, but it was fun jumping on him for it. Perhaps SA's problem is more semantics... "A spokesman for UNHCR, the U.N.'s refugee agency, told...
Going back for a second, I wonder how far Hitler would have gone, if WWII would have been markedly different, if effective anti-semitic hate...
I never believe "none" or "all" or "every", etc., in anything to do with human affairs.
Which is why they're also called progressives. And conservatives are called reactionary, or sometimes regressives.
Separate names with a comma.