NATO Sends Warships to the Aegean Sea to Stop the Mass Exodus of Refugees

[Jefferson23]

Saskia Sassen, the author of Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy, says it is astounding that Europe and the US have missed opportunities to intervene and prevent this crisis - March 6, 2016

Video, 12 minutes approx.

Bio

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chairs The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University. Her recent books are Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press 2008), A Sociology of Globalization (W.W.Norton 2007), and the 4th fully updated edition of Cities in a World Economy (Sage 2011). Her books are translated into twenty-one languages. She is currently working on When Territory Exits Existing Frameworks (Under contract with Harvard University Press). She contributes regularly to Open Democracy and Huffington Post
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=15799

[bemildred]

1. I do wonder how that is supposed to work. Do they herd them with the boat? nt

[Jefferson23]

3. The legacy of the Shrub lives on..these United States of Amurka!

It's one thing when a crisis occurs and it is unexpected, you can see
why member states can fuck it up. But the writing has been on the wall for
a long time here, and the response has been beyond shameful.

Those are some threatening looking babies and toddlers in that video.

[DetlefK]

2. Oh, is it "blame-the-West"-day again?

The syrian civil-war started because of political oppression from the Assad-regime and because years of bad harvests had lead to fears of famine in Syria.

But the West totally could have solved that problem. If only the West had intervened and tried to negotiate peace-talks between a dictator whose regime kidnaps and tortures people and Syrians who refuse to take shit any more.

It's all the West's fault.






You know what else is the West's fault?

Al-Malicki, prime-minister of Iraq and Shia, turned against the Sunni in Iraq and abused his power to kick them out of political positions as soon as he could. It's the West's fault that Al-Malicki toppled the Jenga-tower of political balance that the US had struggled to create.

It's all the West's fault that the Iraqis can't get their shit together.

It's all the West's fault that the iraqi army is rife with corruption and ghost-units.

It's all the West's fault that Al-Malicki disbanded the sunni "Sons of Iraq"-militia. A bunch of murderous mercenaries who would have kicked serious butt against ISIS, if Al-Malicki hadn't fired them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_Iraq

[Jefferson23]

4. Imperialism is a tough game with the losers being millions of innocent people, your sympathies

for balance are duly noted.

[DetlefK]

5. What is that supposed to mean?

All I said was that the world isn't black&white and that blaming the West by default is the wrong approach.

[Jefferson23]

6. It means we take responsibility for what we put into action and since we have NO control

over how bad it can become and has, we must take responsibility for the unknown as well.

Of course there is corruption from Iraq'a leaders but that changes nothing. That is always
figured into the equation of any imperialistic move..and that's what Iraq was...they just
don't give a shit about the consequences. The OP rightly aimed the finger at the main
culprits to include Russia..no one is simplifying the problems.