The United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan, Turkey, Kuwait, Caspian Sea region, France & Most of the EU want a pipeline through Syria. This pipeline will greatly reduce energy profits of & demand from Russia & Iran. Also Iraq, Turkey & Jordan want the over 4.5 million refugees driven out of Syria by chemical weapons to return. Aljazeera also says Syrian refugees & rebels also want the USA to attack.[/IMG]
Somali refugee death rate at 15 times norm: UNHCR ? TalkVietnam
Death rates greatly multiply in refugee camps. Is it any surprise some of them want to get it over with now?
That is why we need to overthrow Assad now. Waiting is costing money & lives. The majority of Syrians are behind regime change.
Except that, Syrians have nowhere to go now. A U.S. bombing will make that worse. The only recourse now is to stop our meddling and allow things to settle down
UN Says Syria Refugees Top 2 Million Mark - ABC News
If the conflict continues 3.5 million people Syrian refugees are expected by the end of the year, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said. ...
Guterres told reporters in Geneva that the U.N. refugee agency has now counted more than 2 million refugees who have fled Syria's violence. Another 4.25 million people have been displaced within Syria, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
However, the UNCHR representative in Syria, Tarik Kurdi, said on Monday that around 5 million people were displaced inside Syria. Asked about the discrepancy, Guterres said the 4.25 million figure is the official U.N. count; the Syrian government has estimated there are 5.1 million people displaced within the country. ...