Whether a country is heaven or hell largely depends on the mental attitude of the population. Syria, & most of the rest of the middle east is how it is, because of, not in spite of the people who inhabit the place.

The very last thing anyone should consider is letting any of these people into their country.

The best thing anyone could do for the planet & themselves would be to donate a dozen short range nuclear armed cruise missiles to each side, & get it finished.

The link between climate change contributing to the Syrian War has been documented in various respected publications http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/03/150302-syria-war-climate-change-drought/

perspective123,

Oh, please. Give us a break. Your "various respected publications" list is National Geographic? The publishing company which has pushed the global warming hoax through its magazines and television channels, no doubt to increase readers and viewers?

In fact, every assertion about the effects of climate change in that article is qualified by "may".

And when we look at the actual assertions in the article you link, we find speculative statements about a drought "worsened by a warming climate" (how much worse?) and that "changes in climate may affect human conflict" (or maybe not) according to an academic who has "studied the role of climate change in violence" but did not participate in the new study. He's from UCal at Berkely. Berkely!

The study authors "acknowledge that many factors led to Syria's uprising, including corrupt leadership, inequality, massive population growth, and the government's inability to curb human suffering."

So why would National Geographic lead with the highly dubious claim about climate change, when any or all of the factors above were obviously far more influential? Must be another TV special coming up.

Next you'll be quoting Tim Flannery.

How far would I go to help the Syrians?

As far as the TV and radio to turn off the evening news, and the dozens of daily news updates, so that I don't have to listen to lies about Syria.

As far as walking past the newspaper sections in supermarkets, so that I don't have to read lies about Syria (or waste my $2).

The author obviously doesn't want to go to the trouble of stepping outside her little information bubble and learn some REAL facts about Syria instead of regurgitating MSM propaganda. That's going WAY too far.

I have become more affirmed in my belief that we should abandon the
Middle East to its own devices.
We, the western non moslem countries, have intervened numerous time to
try to bring some order to the area. It was done to suit our interests
as well for humanitarian reasons.
The Yazadis and the victims of ISIS in recent times brought us in.
All those lives and resources were spent for no result.

People often charge that it is all about oil. Well no matter what we
do the Middle East will always beg to sell us oil.
They cannot survive without the sales of oil.

They will never stop the war between themselves as they both wish to
conquer Rome and do not want to share the spoils. Currently the Sunnis
appear to be the keenest to invade Europe.
We really have nothing to gain by getting involved in further conflict
in the area. Just let them get on with it as there is simply nothing
we can do about it.

Currently the war between Shia (Iran, Syria, Iraq, Hezbollah) and
Sunni (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Eremites) is well under way and the war
in Yemen and Syria is just in the warm up phase. There are signs
that an invasion of Bahrain and the eastern provinces of Saudi Arabia
by Iran is on the cards and a wrong word somewhere could start it.

While they fight among themselves they will use up the manpower and
wealth they might otherwise apply against the west.
The only time we might have to act is if Pakistan
deploys a nuclear weapon into the Middle East.

All in all our best course is to let them get on with it.
It is inevitable.
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They are genitically bound to their tribes and together with their
religion it has resulted in the Middle East mess that no one except
those who live there can resolve. They have chosen to structure their
society the way it is and they will resist to the death to keep it that way.
Unless they finally get the message that they must have an
enlightenment and reformation experience of their own then there is
nothing the rest of the world can do for them.
Genetically we must keep them in their own territory and not introduce
their damaged genome into our countries.
A first step is to convince them that Allah was wrong when he said it
was OK to marry their cousins, so it became normal practise so as to
keep the land and wealth in the family. The Immans would be horrified.

It is tough medicine but no one else has come up with any other
solution than war war war.
Unfortunately that makes them happy as their religion tells them that
war is the way that Rome will be overcome and submit to Islam.