About powerful comparisons and imagery, a few days ago, I was watching a tv program where one of the presenters was commenting on two pictures, both of them featuring people wrapped in those golden space blankets. The people in one picture were refugees, the people in the other were survivors of the Paris attacks. And, really, isn't it terribly emblematic of how most of the victims of Isis are Muslims themselves and how the refugees are running themselves from the people responsible for the attacks and are victims of their crazy just as much as the people in Paris? *sighs*
2020 seems so far off into the future. For all we know, things will be stable before then, even if the country will still be recovering and impoverished from the fighting. Or ISIS will have firm control over the country- and actively block emigration.
Just 1500 Syrian refugees have been admitted to the US since the fighting began in 2011. I wouldn't even say that there's been a citizen-effort to push the government. Just some easy posting on Tumblr/Facebook that seems deceptively progressive compared to how much people actually protest or write/call their representative.
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And man, the UK is... we're doing better now that people have been pushing the government, but 20k by 2020 is not enough, even if we actually do it.
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Just 1500 Syrian refugees have been admitted to the US since the fighting began in 2011. I wouldn't even say that there's been a citizen-effort to push the government. Just some easy posting on Tumblr/Facebook that seems deceptively progressive compared to how much people actually protest or write/call their representative.
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