Humanitarian
An advocate for American involvement in this situation is Russell Moore, an American evangelical theologian, who writes an article for the Washington Post. He writes how Americans, and everyone for that matter, has a moral obligation to help those in need no matter where they are from. He writes “We should remember the history of the 20th century, of Jewish refugees from the Holocaust and Refuseniks from the Soviet Union who were largely ignored by the world community”. By relating the Syrian refugees to Jewish refugees during the holocaust Moore is expressing how dire the situation can become on a humanitarian level. He is effectively saying that by not admitting refugees into safe countries we are allowing them to be slaughtered like the Jewish during World War II.
Emily Cintora, who writes for Harvard's
Kennedy School Review, explains that anti-
terror legislation must be amended to be
mare inclusive of those fleeing from terror.
Due to the way they are now, current
legislation does not allow for those who are
escaping terrorist groups to be granted
safety in the United States. In this way a
distinction could be established between
voluntary and involuntary support of terror.
It is possible for millions of innocence to die, this is war after all, and by helping people flee the United States has a shot of saving as many lives as we can, unlike our actions during WWII. Without the aid of powerful nations, the Middle East as we know it could collapse under the weight of these refugees. Furthermore we must look at what the impacts of American involvement are to the region. It is commonly understood that accepting refugees will allow a country to promote America's “good side” to those they are accepting. In this way, they can spread their culture to places that otherwise would not have had contact with it. This relationship between host cultures and refugees is the basis for the ideas that will be examined in this following section
Syrians would gain a more stable and safe environment to return to after the war ends, and return with a respect for the countries that took them in. A country as diverse as America must begin to include those minority groups that cause fear into the political conversation, in this way America can effect changes that make itself more appealing to those who seek refuge within it, and will allow for America to project a better image of itself worldwide
