Baker: Best to shut the door to all Syrian refugees

we aren't really similar to those places at all, i suggest you spend more time in the rural areas of those states and either be or interact with a minority. and look at the glances you get from the white people down there lmfao.

xenophobia was a character defect rather than a survival instinct. But, it's just too friggin crazy out there.

Iran is Shia and Persian. They speak Farsi, not Arabic. The Baathists (Al-Assad and Saddam Hussein) are Sunni and Arab. The folks running (if you could call it that) Iraq are Shia, but not Persian. They're Arabs. When the Iranians show up to help, it doesn't always go well. The Syrians have Al-Nusra and about a dozen other individual sects, all fighting each other as well as Al-Assad.
Al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula took credit for the Charlie Hebdo attack. They also are pushing into Yemen, where the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Arab and Sunni) and their good buddies the Iranians (Shia Persians) are fighting them, but only in the east. The UAE apparently sent at least one Patriot battery into Yemen with UAE ground troops helping the government there fight Iran backed Shia rebels. I think this is in the western part of the country. I might have my geography reversed.
Hamas and Hezbollah want to kill every Jew in the area, so they can get on with the important work of fighting each other. The Jews are not willing to cooperate with that. The Kurds are Sunni, but they really don't go to church all that much. They just want to be left alone, collect oil revenue and not be bothered with it all. They also happen to be the best, most pragmatic group of fighters over there. They have female fighters in their ranks, fully equal to the men. Some are professional snipers. Given any kind of backing, they can usually win whatever objective they want. They are tactical and smart. Turkey, a once secular but more Islamic state, has a large Kurdish population. They really don't like each other.
The Taliban (remember them?) are in Pushtun Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan. They move across the border sporadically, depending on local conditions.

The crazier Islamic terrorists wish to spread the caliphate to the entire world. They will fail, but it's just a question of how many innocent victims they will take with them. The wahabbi schools of conservative (or radical, heh) Islam as taught by our good friends the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia really did come back to bite them on their oil-rich asses. They have a problem in the Kingdom. How many Syrians did they take in? Zero. Nada. None. They're afraid to. They won't do it.

So why should we? Let them resettle in a Muslim country where they can have their religion without being bothered.

Ideals are not always reality.

Is that what you told your mother when you did something shameful? "Hey, ideals are not always reality, Mom!"

So what his statement really means is that he's an ignorant, posturing, attention-seeking security-theater blowhard.

1. What "this" are you talking about?
2. What exactly do you think the word "impeached" means, and what legal basis would be used to impeach Obama if he did this unspecified "this"?

Suppose World War III starts. Suppose hostile forces start bombing the holy hell out of American cities. Suppose you realize your only chance of survival is to flee to another country that's not a war zone. How would you feel if that country refused to accept you and your loved ones - because some Americans are prone to shooting up schools, blowing up doctors, setting fires to mosques and black churches, etc., etc., etc.? I bet you'd feel pretty bad. I bet you'd feel pretty hopeless.

Granted, this is a relatively far-fetched thought exercise, but a little bit of empathy would go a long way here. If you were a refugee, how would you want to be treated?

recognizing that the governor of MA and even more laughably the mayor of boston have literally fuck all in the way of legal powers to dictate anything resembling refuge policy is pretty logical.

whether you like that fact or not.