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Originally Posted by nomadking
The refugee issue is meant to come from WW2. How many refugees were there from the battle zones and where did they tend to go? They didn't go in large numbers to "safe" adjoining countries. They just went away from the immediate area. The whole of Syria etc is NOT a battle zone, therefore there are safe places even within Syria itself. Rarely is any country under fire throughout. How many are going to Lebanon which is right next door.
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WW2 was overwhelmingly fought on identifiable battlefronts between opposing, uniformed, disciplined armies. Syria is an asymmetric war and there are at least three or four major factions, many of them not in uniform, not in any way disciplined and, in the case of ISIS, rather fond of brutalising civilians. I would be very careful about trying to apply the situation in Europe in 1945 to Syria in 2015.