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DemocratSinceBirth

(101,847 posts)
Thu Aug 19, 2021, 10:08 AM Aug 2021

Why can't Arab states like Morocco and Kuwait take in some Afghan refugees?

Especially the latter which we liberated and is wealthy. Oh, we should take in some too. I already know a couple of Afghan refugees.

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Why can't Arab states like Morocco and Kuwait take in some Afghan refugees? (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2021 OP
Yep Dubai as well. jimfields33 Aug 2021 #1
We should take in some.Our allies should take in some. DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2021 #2
Good point. jimfields33 Aug 2021 #3
No need to send them to another hellish situation. DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2021 #4
Other countries are taking them in. GemDigger Aug 2021 #5
Many countries are selective in taking in refugees Steelrolled Aug 2021 #6
Who says they can't or won't? The Republicans Hortensis Aug 2021 #7
No doubt they will, as they have in the past. MineralMan Aug 2021 #8

DemocratSinceBirth

(101,847 posts)
2. We should take in some.Our allies should take in some.
Thu Aug 19, 2021, 10:13 AM
Aug 2021

I chose Kuwait and Morocco because they are relatively free

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
7. Who says they can't or won't? The Republicans
Thu Aug 19, 2021, 10:31 AM
Aug 2021

can try to shuffle off our responsibility on others, or deny it altogether, motivated by their usual antagonisms. But we really can’t.

We’re talking about a small number of people, anyway, educated and productive, whom we could absorb very easily without even noticing.

So It’s a non-issue to me. Muslim nations have taken in many refugees and people in other trouble, but what we could really use from them, if they were able, would be their influence, added to our pressure, on the Taliban to enable us to get these people out to safety.

MineralMan

(151,259 posts)
8. No doubt they will, as they have in the past.
Thu Aug 19, 2021, 10:36 AM
Aug 2021

We just won't see it on the news here. There are refugee camps in many Islamic countries. Have been for a very long time.

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