Profitable Humanity vs the Problematic
Whether a person is a Muslim or a Mormon means little when
dealing with humanity and trying to maintain a sense of humanity. A huge chunk
of humanity has voted no to their old countries as did millions did a century
ago and more to their "old countries" to come to the US and
Argentina.
What they wanted then and now is a way to feed and protect
their families and a way to reach their human potential unfettered by the
chains of the past.
The Task
What to do with this mass migration not only involves the
potential host countries but with the
active participation of the refugee population through their designated
representatives. This is more than just a political issue, it is more
economic and what the refugees offer as skills, knowledge and attitudes are the
assets a smart polity will address. We must create a mechanism where the
Syrians and others from troubled lands nearby where problems and desired
solutions can be aired.
We have roughly two months to complete this process, one month ago it
should have started.
The order of
magnitude is millions, Dealing with tens of thousands or even a couple
100,000 is yesterday's old news. One cannot bottle a couple of million
entrepreneurs without trouble afoot.
There is no tradeoff
between security and humanitarianism as to deny the one defeats the other.
There are no security measures on the table that can deal with stuffing a
couple of million from the cradle of civilization into jars, tents and hovels
that won't fail utterly. Those millions presently penned in UN Concentration
Camps will join the present exodus.
There is no viable force short of biological and nuclear
warfare that can effectively stop migration, and that has a serious capability
to blow up. Now is the time to get serious about maintaining the momentum of
the movement to leverage advantage, While Europe is already packed with people,
there are many other parts of the world where a few million could be moved, but
moved in a manner in which the refugees are part of the decision making
process,.
The motives on combatants
and all others affected by a conflict is at the core, biological survival of
self and of the primary group, day to day, and generation to generations (Food
and Family). Enabling these are Psychological Roles to protect and nurture,
done in accordance with Sociological Rules of social status and the land, aided
by Technological Tools.
Singing and dancing,
marksmanship and bulldozers are Tools.
The Syrian exodus of entire families including the kids is
about as clear a statement that staying in Syria is a clear and present danger
to biological survival. If those who left saw a viable alternative to go back,
it will take a generation to act on it.
Those who stay behind have made a choice that cooperation
can be done sufficient to continue biological survival. Given the continued
butchery by ISIS of even those who volunteer from foreign lands, the bloom is
getting tarnished. North Korea is an example where the people have accepted
utter nonsense as reality as they see no alternative. ISIS does a better job on
its turf than North Korea.
The choice of Syrians
is between an oppressive regime, scatterbrained rebels, a murderous ISIS, and a
tepid West. If Assad's regime falls, there is little guarantee that the
gaggle of rebels will do any better than those of Libya.
If the Syrian exodus were effectively settled anywhere, they
would remain a not so latent threat to those who have murdered Syria. The Cuban
enclave in Miami in spades would happen.
Thinking
has little to do with decision making for the continued survival of the primary
group, biological or not.
BIOLOGICAL;
Food and Family
PSYCHOLOGICAL:
Roles that protect and nurture the family
SOCIOLOGICAL:
Rules that the Roles adhere to
TECHNOLOGICAL:
The necessary Tools
Food & Family, Roles, Rules, and Tools that affect
the de facto primary groups.
I call it F4F:
Or the shorter version
The History, Closing the Ports
of the Levant to Shipping by 13th Century
Part of the reason that the Ports of the Levant were shut down was to
induce trade with India and the Far East to go through Cairo and then through
the Red Sea. Once the Ottomans achieved a naval capability of note, they
preferred trade to do through Ottoman Territory which until Iraq was taken,
meant the northern over land route (Silk Road).
When the Ottoman Empire was defeated in WW 1, the British and French
sought to reopen the middle route, by way of Aleppo-Damascus to Baghdad to
Basra and the Persian Gulf. The flow of commerce restored, also restored the
vitality of the Lebanese, Syrian, and Iraqi people plus that of Israel.
It should not be underrated the impact on culture and economy that
reopening trade routes that had been effectively stifled for 500 years. If one
were to use Google Earth to look at the snap shots taken and posted on the maps
by link to see a fairly modern infrastructure. Competitive to comparable areas
in the US outside the suburbs.
What is afoot is the very old commercial and entrepreneurial that was
freed by WW 1, vitalized by the French and British, and now searching to find
itself after 500 years of economic oppression and 700 years of Turkish
domination. These refugees have had a
taste of the good life, and they can't get it at home anymore.
These are not refugees from a destitute
and backwater background, they are from one already restored to a state of
economic parity, given the BigMac Index.
