Commentary

Mythologizing the Syrian Refugee Crisis

By Ben Boychuk
Thursday, November 19 2015

Humanitarian gestures are well and good, but not when they come at the expense of the nation’s security. So it’s more than a little irritating to hear liberals chide conservatives — and the broader American public — that halting the relocation of Syrian refugees to the United States is the height of callousness and un-American besides. President Obama himself took that line this week during a press conference in Antayla, Turkey at the start of the G20 summit. “When I hear political leaders suggesting that there would be a religious test for which a person who’s…

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