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Europe
Migrant crisis a storm that will soon engulf Europe
2015-11-12
Posted by:ryuge

#7  Procopius2k hit the nail on the head but nobody has the stomach for it. What we need is the Ottoman Empire to re-claim her old territories but the Turks aren't trustworthy.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-11-12 15:31  

#6  Start with realizing that saving failed states is a FAIL to begin with.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2015-11-12 14:16  

#5  Umm, start by not issuing a general invitation to come to your nation to the entire hemisphere?
Posted by: ptah   2015-11-12 13:09  

#4  Does anyone really know how that might be accomplished?

19th Century European colonialism took care of a lot of that.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-11-12 12:35  

#3  Silentbrick, sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2015-11-12 12:18  

#2  Machine guns and flamethrowers work pretty well. It's not nice but it does tell people that you're really not keen on people trying to cross the border. Minefields can also work, but are a bit less specific.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2015-11-12 02:12  

#1  FTA: "Europeans will need to do much more to promote stability, save failed states and avert huge outflows of people within parts of Africa itself, as well as in the Middle East."
Does anyone really know how that might be accomplished?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2015-11-12 01:14  

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