re: France to accept 30,000 Sryian refugees over the next two years...

Not nearly as good as the West is at killing them and supplying them with weapons and creating political instability in their own countries. There's a real simple solution. Stop playing World Police so that we aren't obliged to play World Welfare State. Until that happens, we have an obligation to grant sanctuary to those trying escape from the crazy our meddling has, in part, unleashed.

For all of our haranguing and chest thumping, we are capitulating to the will of terrorists. We first "sacrificed" our privacy and some pretty fundamental civil rights in the name of homeland security, then we needed to up our military spending to the tune of twice that of the 10 biggest military spenders below us combined, which has played a significant role in weakening our financial rating, now we are closing down borders and sacrificing another fundamental part of the American identity - Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, indeed. All of this is exactly what the terrorists are using in their propaganda to recruit more poor, young, ignorant people to their ranks - that the West is exactly as they say it is; weak, false, and scared.