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There are more of the others killed because there were more of them living near ISIS, not because Christians are not endangered. And Christians are being persecuted all over the middle east, in every Muslim country. A Shia or a Suuni can live almost anywhere in the middle east where their co-religionists live without fear of persecution. There is nowhere in the middle east a Christian can live without fear of persecution.

No they don't. They try to sort out which are the most desperate, and which aren't likely criminals or terrorists.

Most Palestinian refugees have been 'refugees' in the same place they were born for their whole lives. It has nothing to do with Israel and everything to do with cynical Arab governments.

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No, you're right. They're mostly tied to non-democratic countries, and those exist everywhere, unfortunately.

They stayed for many years while the Shia and the Sunis fought a bloody war together, trying to piece together some sort of civilization there among uncivilized people. They then spent years training the Iraqi army and equipping them. However, the democratically elected government made generals and other senior officers out of their friends and relatives, and these people often stole the mens paycheques and sold their equpment while living high off the hog in palaces. When the ISIS fighters showed up the Iraqi arm all fled without fighting.

What makes you think some bloggers's poorly thought out opinion is any more intelligent than the ones you post here?

The peshmurga are limited to small areas of the north. They're not going to push ISIS out of Syria or central Iraq. Why the hell should they? It's not their territory, and while the Suunis are too chickshit to fight against the Shia they'll damn sure fight the Kurds to take it back afterward.

So your solution is to do nothing.

Yeah, if you don't give a damn about what kind of people you get, what it costs, or what it does to the country. Clark was the longest running joke in Canadian political history. Even the conservative Sun newspapers were always drawing him with mittens tied to his sleeves because he was such a clueless clown.

Why is it every time I read one of your posts I think of Donald Trump?

How did ISIS come to be? Hint: Ali ibn Abi Talib

Their choice.

Believe it or not you can't blame every single thing in the world you don't like on Stephen Harper.

Emotionally overwrought, much?

Do they think badly of Japan because it doesn't resettle refugees or allow immigration? Nope! Nobody even considers it. Japan is a well-respected state, as are all the others who don't accept refugees. And if someone out there does want to complain, well screw them.

In your less than unbiased opinion.

I understand that we were talking about immigration when you said "especially in light of the current situation" which would seem to indicate to me that it's YOU who doesn't understand the difference.

Don't you know that Arabs love blondes?

You know there's no chance of that being successful. Iran is not going to stop funding Shiite groups. Various uber rich types in the gulf countries and Saudi Arabia will not stop funding the others. There are tons of unofficial arms suppliers who can't be stopped. And even if you could you can count on the Russians, Chinese, and even the North Koreans gladly supplying any weapons cold cash can buy.

You get back to us, buddy, when you can show us a chart of those nations which allow refugees to come and live and work in their cities and get citizenship and the right to vote. I have a feeling almost none of those countries on your list will make the cut. There are millions of Palestinians who have been born in refugee camps which are now cities by any other name, inside the borders of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt, who are still not allowed to live or participate in the political and economic life of the nation they were born in. They are not citizens even though sometimes multiple generations were born there.

Libya has been that for my entire life. It broke open in revolution because of the so-called Arab Spring, which was neither inspired nor instigated by outside powers. That revolution was ongoing and very vicous and brutal long before do-gooders started calling for the West to do something to help the rebels. Which were also shit holes long before we started, and we started to try and do something to stop it.

What the hell, guy? We were talking about immigration. And you were the one who brought up "especially in light of the current situation". I just asked what that has to do with immigration. Do you even understand the conversation?

They got 1% and a cutback in pensions and sick pay. Pretty sure that isn't going to cut it with an NDP government in power.

There is virtually no chance that Iran's 'democracy' would have lasted more than another couple of years. To think otherwise is ludicrous. The mentality in that part of the world is not given to the compromises necessary to sustain democracy.