What the columnists said
Many of the recent migrants aren’t fleeing war-torn Syria, said Jonah Goldberg in the Los Angeles Times. They’re middle-class Syrians fleeing places such as Turkey, Jordan, and Hungary, where they’ve already found safety. “What they didn’t find was a pleasant place to live or to raise kids,” so they headed for Germany and Sweden, where the standard of living is much higher. After seeing images of welcome parties for migrants at German train stations, “Iraqis are now packing their bags, too.” I’m sympathetic to their plight, but where will it end?
The sight of Aylan Kurdi’s lifeless 3-year-old body “inspired a wave of Western soul-searching,” said Ross Douthat in The New York Times, “with much talk about how ‘the world’ failed” him. But what does that mean, exactly? As we’ve seen in Libya and Iraq, U.S. military intervention doesn’t always end well. Our Iraq misadventure, in fact, helped destabilize the entire region. There are limits to what the U.S. can do in that fractured, chaotic part of the world—“a cold reality unchanged by the image of a tiny body on a beach.”
Still, “America can and must do more” for the migrants, said Julia Ioffe in ForeignPolicy.com. “I’m living proof why.” I was seven in 1990 when my family came to the U.S. as Jewish refugees from the Soviet Union and started “a free and prosperous life.” But the fight to get Soviet Jews into this country took the kind of political will that’s sorely lacking in 2015. Now all we hear is talk of “bureaucratic bottlenecks or congressional gridlock.” But American presidents in the past have issued executive orders to overcome such obstacles. “If Obama has a bucket list, why isn’t this on it?”
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对第二段有同感,美国佬不要到处搞事,然后拍拍屁股走人,留下一地鸡毛,
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What the columnists said
Many of the recent migrants aren’t fleeing war-torn Syria, said Jonah Goldberg in the Los Angeles Times. They’re middle-class Syrians fleeing places such as Turkey, Jordan, and Hungary, where they’ve already found safety. “What they didn’t find was a pleasant place to live or to raise kids,” so they headed for Germany and Sweden, where the standard of living is much higher. After seeing images of welcome parties for migrants at German train stations, “Iraqis are now packing their bags, too.” I’m sympathetic to their plight, but where will it end?
The sight of Aylan Kurdi’s lifeless 3-year-old body “inspired a wave of Western soul-searching,” said Ross Douthat in The New York Times, “with much talk about how ‘the world’ failed” him. But what does that mean, exactly? As we’ve seen in Libya and Iraq, U.S. military intervention doesn’t always end well. Our Iraq misadventure, in fact, helped destabilize the entire region. There are limits to what the U.S. can do in that fractured, chaotic part of the world—“a cold reality unchanged by the image of a tiny body on a beach.”
Still, “America can and must do more” for the migrants, said Julia Ioffe in ForeignPolicy.com. “I’m living proof why.” I was seven in 1990 when my family came to the U.S. as Jewish refugees from the Soviet Union and started “a free and prosperous life.” But the fight to get Soviet Jews into this country took the kind of political will that’s sorely lacking in 2015. Now all we hear is talk of “bureaucratic bottlenecks or congressional gridlock.” But American presidents in the past have issued executive orders to overcome such obstacles. “If Obama has a bucket list, why isn’t this on it?”
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对第二段有同感,美国佬不要到处搞事,然后拍拍屁股走人,留下一地鸡毛,
顶一下,感谢分享!