Should We Take In Syrian Refugees?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25539843

Anyone care to agree with Nigel Farage over this one?

[ChillDoubt]

I agree emmie. In such instances, unpalatable though it would be for the pinko's, Assad should be removed and a puppet government put in place until all factions involved agree to come to the table and help form the new government.
I fully understand the US's plight in such circumstances. Many cry foul when they get involved, yet just as many want them to act as the worlds policeman instead of the toothless and unfit for purpose UN troops.
Given the barracking they'd get it's understandable that they've now taken the stance of: you want change and autonomy? Get on with it then and enlist the help of your ME neighbours, we're not getting involved.

[emmie]

going on the experiences of late, in Egypt and those other countries i have listed, you knock out the bad guy to be replaced with worse, the rebels are not going to accept our intervention, they just want to kill the bad guy, then install their own brand of government, amongst the rebels are many hard line Islamists, who the west has been fighting against and dying in their thousands, not to mention the collatoral damage of the people in the middle, if the US steps in, who will get the back of Assad, we know who, and that does not bear thinking about.
This is a crisis but not one we should take any hardline approach to, nor the US they do not want to see more bodies coming home to US soil, it would be massively unpopular with the American people, as it would here if we go in

[emmie]

have you seen what puppet interim governments come to, nothing, usually usurped by a worse regime, quite frankly the whole Middle East is a nightmare of epic proportions. It should be an Arab council that helps refugees, more people here doesn't help us or them, they could be stuck in limbo for years, this war is not going to be resolved in a day, month or years, unless there is some or lots of get around a table and talk,
Assad may be everything they say, killer of his own people and so on, but that hasn't stopped this disparate band of rebels of killing innocents caught up in this.

[VHG]

Taking a few Syrian refugees to help with the Syrian refugee problem is like taking a few cod out of the North Sea to help with the problem of low cod stocks.

Both would be a total waste of time and solve nothing.