A very good and extremely urgent question:
ISIS must be defeated and, to the extent that this is feasible, destroyed. But we mustn’t forget its victims.
Some insist that we shouldn’t aid refugees here in the West, but that, instead, we should help them in their homelands. Well, here’s a chance to do just that. I trust that such critics will step up to the plate and advocate aid to the internally displaced minorities in Iraq and Syria with the same energy that they devote to opposing the admission of refugees to the United States.
I cheerfully agree that, both for us and for the refugees, helping them where they live (or near to it) would be preferable. It’s not always possible, though. But sometimes it is, and it seems that we’re not doing a very good job of it.
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