General Chat

There are hundreds of daft questions. And I've been asked most of them in my teaching career. :-D

If i could give a definite answer on how to solve ( or even address) the problems of the middle east, I doubt I'd be sitting here now :-) But I have tried to answer all questions (if I've missed one ask again!)

I can speculate on what I might do/ might have done in the circumstances if I were a politician or a refugee, or even an economic migrant, but it would only be from the perspective of being outside the situation myself.

Do I think you can arm and train a group of young men ( and women) to take their country back.... yes, eventually, but not in the short term, so short term help is needed to give people refuge while others try to stabilise if possible the situation and give the young men and their families somewhere to go back to...as many refugees would wish to do I think?

To take it literally...a question can not be daft/stupid etc as it does not have a brain but one can only question the ability of the questioner.

As a teacher I'm sure you have had many interesting questions over the years.......

Thought I'd posted this already....there are many false Syrian passports out there right now so we really don't know how many are true Syrian refugees and how many are economic migrants. So far Canada is only taking people from the UN camps so their passports are more likely to be accurate.

Again I'm not bickering and I think Rambling Rose and Guinevere would agree with that.
Am I to be censored because I'm not following the common thread.
What have I stated that isn't intelligent ?

I love French-Canadian music. Lively stuff. :-)

Can't see what the argument is about.

I agree with what has been written by all.....so.....seems to me, we are all right.....But what the answer is or how to go about it is another thing....We would have to have more information to hand than Internet news.

And ....... if I may throw in my two penneth, I think Caroline has a few valid points which she put across quite well....what the answer is without coming across as heartless is beyond me. Let us just hope for miracles.

:-)

All documents can be faked, and are, everyday and for even less honest reasons ( fraud, id theft etc) But that is no reason to suspect everyone or even the majority.

I am sure those coming to countries directly from refugee camps, will appreciate more than most how much of a burden they might be to the receiving country... after all some of them will have been in refugee camps for years, reliant on the goodwill of strangers.

The people best qualified to sort out the world's problems are too busy as barbers and driving taxis.

Lol Bob

You forget chat room members.

I didn't RR anyone........just saying !

Agreed Rambling Rose. True refugees will seek safe haven in this case UN camps.

Wow, my post got RR'd! I feel very honoured.

again due to changes this might not make sense !!

Nope already stated I didn't RR it.

Just because I don't agree with what might be said doesn't mean I'd RR it.

Sorry, Caroline, it's just that the post was addressed to you so I assumed that you RR'd it.

I am not sure I would call seven miles from the Syrian border a "safe haven".

" 10,000 children have been killed in Syria, 2 million ( children) have fled the country, 80,000 people are in the za'atari refugee camp in Jordan, seven miles from the Syrian border"

That's okay !

RR is a cowards way out unless the contents are really unacceptable...which of course they weren't in this case.

Rambling Rose my understanding is the people coming to Canada are coming from a safe and (by any camps standards) clean UN camp.
Is it as good as home no obviously not, but it's hardly a shanty town.
Obviously there will be many different types of camps, but UN ones are usually guarded and safe aren't they ?

I'm afraid I don;t know which camp the refugees who arrived in Canada came from? I may have missed it though in the news reports.

I'm not sure we've been told the actual name just it's a UN camp, and there's been pictures of all our bigwigs going there so we could see how organised and clean etc it was. The sheer fact all the bigwigs went it can't be too unsafe.....