No idea.

Editor,

The American people are "weary ... after more than a decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan" and drone wars in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia and bombing Libya and arming revels in Syria and bombing ISIS and whatever other military adventures escape me at the moment.

I honestly wonder what percentage of the American public realize that Americans' "weariness" with these wars pales in comparison with the weariness of people who actually live where the USA drops it bombs. A few Americans? A lot?

I find it interesting also that Americans who are oblivious to the "wearisome" suffering of people unfortunate enough to live where the U.S. has its wars lump the civilians whose lives are destroyed -- who've lost livelihoods, limbs, and loved ones -- with the crazed madmen who flock to areas of instability to pillage, rape, and murder as active and passive versions of the same depraved mentality.

I wonder what the actual count is of Americans, and Europeans, who believe that providing refuge to people fleeing the hell-holes created by American and NATO violence will "dilute" their "national cultures" with people who presumably are so backward and barbaric they are incapable of "assimilating," which I think translates to becoming just like the people who believe they can't "assimilate."

War without military casualties, which is itself a fantasy, does not translate into war without civilian devastation. Americans have no idea what living in a war zone is like.

Re: "Many Obstacles Are Seen to U.S. Taking in Large Number of Syrian Refugees" (9/5/2015)