Which countries are most responsible for the vast rise in refugees?

[vetran]

The rich ones, the ones coming here are economic migrants or terrorists, that is why they cross a series of safe states.

Cameron actually had a very good point, lets support better safe areas closer to the conflict and return bogus asylum seekers there.

[sasguru]

The rich ones, the ones coming here are economic migrants or terrorists, that is why they cross a series of safe states.
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The terrorists seem to have been mainly home grown or have I missed something?

[vetran]

The terrorists seem to have been mainly home grown or have I missed something?

yes a usual.

[xoggoth]

Which countries invaded Iraq etc

I agree. Our governments seem to be in total ignorance of the realities of these places. You didn't have to be an expert to know there would probably be conflicts in Iraq between Sunnis, Shias and Kurds.

Syria also, there are believed to be as many as 1,000 armed opposition groups in Syria fighting Assad, many are Islamists. There is almost no chance of any peace deal if Assad is overthrown, the civil war will just go on. Leave Iran and Russia to it I say. At least Trump has more sense on that issue.

Guide to the Syrian rebels - BBC News

PS I would remove you from my ignore list if you stopped calling people cretins.

[xoggoth]

Don't think Syria is the last Middle Eastern conflict. Algeria may be next.

How Algeria could destroy the EU

[darmstadt]

Don't think Syria is the last Middle Eastern conflict. Algeria may be next.

How Algeria could destroy the EU

Why? Have they moved it or something without telling the citizens?

Algeria, is a sovereign state in North Africa

[MarillionFan]

Or is our modus operandi to just stir the sh!te and walk away?

It's definitely my modus operandi you dull cretin.

[NotAllThere]

Well, logically, as we caused much of the problem, maybe we should be taking in many more refugees than others, like Germany, who didn't get involved?

Could be!

Here are selected numbers of refugees/asylumees per 1000 inhabitans, mid 2015
Lebanon 208.91
Jordan 89.55
Turkey 23.73
Sweden 14.66
Norway 9.14
Switzerland 8.45
Germany 3.10
United Kingdom 1.82

You poor man. Do you have a Swiss bank account?

No. But he has to pay into one regularly to keep his immunity to banning.

[greenlake]

Damn. Even Hagrid has joined the Syrian rebels....

[SussexSeagull]

I agree to a point but you can't keep blaming the west for the Middle East's seemingly insatiable appetite for tyrants. When we did stay out of Syria the Russians got involved.

Dammed if you do, dammed if you don't.