"Like the Syrians, I fled my country. Here’s what you don’t understand about refugees."

[potone]

1. It isn't that these politicians don't understand this.

They choose not to recognize the truth or are, even worse, simply incapable of empathy. What, after all, is so difficult to understand about wanting to get out of a war zone, especially one in which both sides seem to be equally ruthless and devoid of any respect for human life, as is the case in Syria? Who would entrust their lives and the lives of their children to set sail on an over-crowded dinghy unless the alternative seemed even worse? When did it become respectable to be so heartless?