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Cleita

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

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Wed Sep 30, 2015, 10:58 PM

Sep 2015

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.

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"Why Don't Refugees Go Back To Where They Came From?" [View all] kpete Sep 2015 OP

There is a cruelty that runs madaboutharry Sep 2015 #1

Well said. Indeed, you don't see 'xenophobe' and 'compassion' in the same sentence very often. pampango Oct 2015 #7

The thing is, a lot of them will want to, months or years down the road, to rebuild what... Humanist_Activist Sep 2015 #2

Months and years from now, ISIS and the Syrian goon squads will still be fighting. Archae Oct 2015 #5

+1000. nt. polly7 Oct 2015 #6

I have met many refugees over my lifetime all the way back to WWII. Cleita Sep 2015 #3

Most people who are forced to emigrate because of war or economic destruction want to go back Hydra Oct 2015 #4

correct me if I'm wrong madokie Oct 2015 #8

Partially. Popular antipathy for the "dictator for life" concept plays a role too. n/t pampango Oct 2015 #9

Yes and no because malaise Oct 2015 #10