Stefan MolyneuxVerified account

I agree - there are 'economic migrants', not refugees, but how do you address the charge that Western powers have contributed to the de-stabilization of the Middle East (esp Libya), through disastrous intervention and opened the flood gates to a wave of migration through Europe

These countries were part of the Ottoman Empire, known as the Sick Man of Europe, where at the end of WW1, 80% of people over 5 years of age, were illiterate compared with about 5% in Canada. These countries never functioned well historically.

Actually Libya had a literacy rate of >90% and one of the lowest child mortality rates in the world until "we" (I.E Obama, Cameron & Sarkozy) decided to stage a coup there.

It looks as if they didn't need an Arab Spring.

Maybe, maybe not; nothing works in abstract

There's a bigger picture going on. Why is it mostly fighting age men leaving their homelands for the west? How has that been engineered? The consequence is countries left with few fighting age men left to defend them...

They need the best and brightest, and if what so many are saying is true and they are coming to America, that only leaves the countries they leave at a disadvantage. They should be staying to better their countries.

That's not what I'm thinking. More so, ripe for the spoils of war. Besides, what we see coming into Europe eg widespread rape & torture gangs, is it really their best & brightest? Our continents are under attack whilst leaving other geolocations ripe for taking over... Bigger pic