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"There Will No More Refugee Crisis Especially if we freedom bomb the refuges"
Once We Freedom Bomb The Underlying Causes There Will No More Refugee CrisisEspecially if we freedom bomb the refugees.
The Guardian view on Cameron’s refugee plans: small numbers, big distractions
Editorial
The RAF has been assassinating Britons in Syria, and the PM talks as if aid and armaments can end Syria’s agony. But refugees need safe homes now, and on that count Cameron is selling them shorthttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/07/guardian-view-on-david-cameron-refugee-plans-raf-syria
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When pressed with hard questions about hardship and hunger in Britain, Mr Cameron is often keen to shift the debate away from such so-called “symptoms” and towards nebulous “underlying causes”. The billing of Monday’s statement as being about “Refugees and Counter Terrorism” betrayed a parallel effort to make a similar shift from discussing hard numbers of refugees, and towards the shapeless horrors of the Syrian war that caused their displacement. The PM revealed that UK forces had carried out a targeted assassination of a young British man, Reyaad Khan, who had been fighting with Isis in Syria. Not least because the Commons had expressly rejected military involvement in the Syrian theatre in 2013, this was dramatic and disturbing news. It was bound to divert attention from the row about refugee numbers. True, this was Mr Cameron’s first meeting with the House since the recess, but if he had wanted to keep the two issues separate he could have asked his home secretary to set out the asylum plans. He chose, however, not merely to take the two issues together but to suggest that he had thoughts on the military front that might somehow enable more Syrians to stay home.
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There is in reality no military answer to the refugee problem within a remotely relevant timetable, but to pretend otherwise shifts attention away not only from a modest offer in the numbers stakes but also from London’s particular difficulty in working with European partners towards a continent-wide resolution. Instead of enrolling in EU schemes for which the admin and the funding are in place, Mr Cameron prefers the cost and complexities of UK-only schemes. It seems baffling, until you recall his simultaneous parliamentary difficulties with Conservative rebels on the EU referendum. Britain’s refugee policy puts cold calculation before any impulse to reach out. But with Europe, the story is of diehard Tory hearts trumping level heads.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/07/guardian-view-on-david-cameron-refugee-plans-raf-syria
Editorial
The RAF has been assassinating Britons in Syria, and the PM talks as if aid and armaments can end Syria’s agony. But refugees need safe homes now, and on that count Cameron is selling them shorthttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/07/guardian-view-on-david-cameron-refugee-plans-raf-syria
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When pressed with hard questions about hardship and hunger in Britain, Mr Cameron is often keen to shift the debate away from such so-called “symptoms” and towards nebulous “underlying causes”. The billing of Monday’s statement as being about “Refugees and Counter Terrorism” betrayed a parallel effort to make a similar shift from discussing hard numbers of refugees, and towards the shapeless horrors of the Syrian war that caused their displacement. The PM revealed that UK forces had carried out a targeted assassination of a young British man, Reyaad Khan, who had been fighting with Isis in Syria. Not least because the Commons had expressly rejected military involvement in the Syrian theatre in 2013, this was dramatic and disturbing news. It was bound to divert attention from the row about refugee numbers. True, this was Mr Cameron’s first meeting with the House since the recess, but if he had wanted to keep the two issues separate he could have asked his home secretary to set out the asylum plans. He chose, however, not merely to take the two issues together but to suggest that he had thoughts on the military front that might somehow enable more Syrians to stay home.
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There is in reality no military answer to the refugee problem within a remotely relevant timetable, but to pretend otherwise shifts attention away not only from a modest offer in the numbers stakes but also from London’s particular difficulty in working with European partners towards a continent-wide resolution. Instead of enrolling in EU schemes for which the admin and the funding are in place, Mr Cameron prefers the cost and complexities of UK-only schemes. It seems baffling, until you recall his simultaneous parliamentary difficulties with Conservative rebels on the EU referendum. Britain’s refugee policy puts cold calculation before any impulse to reach out. But with Europe, the story is of diehard Tory hearts trumping level heads.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/07/guardian-view-on-david-cameron-refugee-plans-raf-syria
http://www.eschatonblog.com/2015/09/once-we-freedom-bomb-underlying-causes.html