just curious who thinks we should take more Syrian refugees
I posted a link to Senator Durbin's impassioned plea for a Democratic initiative to take in 100,000 refugees from Syria.
Speech
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027271991
Press release
I'm surprised at how few views the post has. I'm curious now if people don't think we should take in refugees from Syria.
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| We should but no more than the 10,000 President Obama is requesting | |
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| We should take in the 100,000 Senators Durbin, Warren and other Dems are requesting | |
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| 100,000 is nothing compared to how many we should take in | |
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| We shouldn't allow any more than are already here. | |
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Let's not forget that some of those "in the know" deny climate change 
Thank you!
Too bad I left Chi-town in the late '80s.
Right before Cubs fever 
I'm in the San Francisco East Bay area
Yes, you have a fan!
VTA runs a bus up to BART at Fremont, or as I call it, the "Gateway To Civilization".
generally myself, arcane1, and Hell Hath No Fury. Both of them are in SF. The usual destination is Tommy's Joynt at Van Ness and Geary, "home of the buffalo stew".
Then again, since it's such a PITA for me to get up there without a car 
, perhaps we could scare up some other South Bay DUers and go someplace I can actually get to (that is, downtown San Jose ).
Yes we are. And we're grateful to us, too
I like it! 
We live in a small mobile home, but the other members of my family would happily give up a bedroom and the living room to a small refugee family--or even a large one, if necessary. Sign us up. It's killing us to watch what they're going through.
Why doesn't our government give us the option of adopting a refugee family? Bring them here. Let us help them. Compared to their plight, even the poor here in America are wealthy.
other people, like the ones who live there, far, far too little. Poor little mindless peacenicks who'd be living happy lives building sandcastles, grabbing and eating crabs and snakes as they crawled by? Is that the picture? They don't deserve that contempt. They're PEOPLE, and damned conservative ones at that (conservative = more war), with governments that typically combine secular and religious leaders in one position (gov+religion = more war). The history of that region is one of thousands of years of wars and massacres, of great civilizations that arose long before northern Europe's, declined and were replaced, or were destroyed and replaced. They have books, ones they've been writing themselves for centuries, and can even read, cultures, ethics, morals, religions, civilizations, governments.
We've done some bad things, all right, but if the U.S.A. had never approached the middle east, things would not be all that different. Except its wealthy would be be poorer.
Oh, yes! Thought of one -- We are far more responsible for global warming than any other one country, and that is one of the major destabilizing problems in the middle east and Africa. But even there the oil-producing nations have been doing all they can to encourage burn-baby-burn on the planet. They are victims, yes, but hardly innocent or too stupid to look after themselves.
This is a notion of what the great library at Alexandria probably looked like 3 centuries before the birth of Christ. It probably held a half million scrolls before it and they were destroyed. A dreadful loss to humanity. 
