I do agree entirely with the points raised about the completely appalling apathy, particularly of the citizens of my country, the UK, toward the refugees fleeing violence, bombing and instant death in their home country of war-torn Syria.
However, there are a few little points I wish to raise, and they are indeed arguable from different points of view. Firstly, I think it is to persuade complete capitulation toward the enemies of the Western powers to conclude that part of the Syrian problem has been created by the West. Syria has been engrossed in a monstrous civil war since 2011, due to a series of failed uprisings by its citizens to overthrow the authoritarian dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad. The terrorist group 'Islamic State' have also conducted attacks on both sides of the Syrian conflict, causing further widespread destruction to homes and people's lives. The extent to which the West, particularly the United States of America has apparently caused such a huge refugee crisis is rather rich; they provided non-lethal aid to select members of the Syrian rebel armies opposing the Assad regime and have also conducted precision air-strikes on ISIS targets in the more deserted regions of the country.
Given these facts, it is hard for me to wish to blame the West for this crisis. The European nations are now accepting these refugees, including the UK government, which will provide its own refugee quota using its foreign aid budget. This is not a black and white issue, people. It will still take quite a long time to completely safeguard all of these refugees, which requires a hell of a lot of logistics, border crossing and cross-nation bilateral agreements within EU member-states. National security advisers of their leaders will be wishing (and I am sure they are right to do so) to check each and every person crossing the borders within Europe to make sure no members of ISIS or other extremely dangerous groups step through to plan their own attacks on cities.
The fact that social media is all of a sudden drowning in sanctimonious tears at the sight of a picture of a drowned boy being carried to shore, appears to display nothing more than a vast ignorance on the part of people living in the West. We seem to have absolutely no clue that beyond our Twitter feeds there is a world in which people are being slaughtered in the droves by sectarian murderers, but because they know nothing of the people that are actually responsible for such tragedy, they only look to their own governments for outcry, shame and condemnation. Instead of blaming the West on our enemies crimes, and wallowing in the grief of a boy that represents what has already been happening for over a decade, let us remind ourselves that we should continue to provide a course of action to solve the root of the problem, not just take in refugees. Let us encourage each other to help the Syrian people wipe out the threat of terrorists, and continue to provide non-lethal aims of stabilizing the Syrian Civial War by any means necessary to prevent further loss of life.
