<i>&gt;  that is not the same as saying that people should be sent back to war zones.</i><p>&quot;In the region&quot;, you can choose whether to send them to:<p>1) Turkey, an increasingly-authoritarian regime which is already overflowing with millions of refugees, making money with the fanatics and holding mainstream cultural values that tend to despise people from Syria&#x2F;Kurdistan&#x2F;Iraq;<p>2) Lebanon, a country where refugees from other conflicts already account for over a third of the total population, and which is far from stable on its own (half-run by the unofficial Hezbollah militia)<p>3) Israel. They don&#x27;t even want &quot;their own&quot; arabs...<p>4) Iraq, another war-torn country half-owned by the same petro-fanatics;<p>5) Iran, which is logistically very difficult (being on the other side of warzone Iraq) and, well, not great for people running from religious fanatics;<p>6) Jordan, another poor and unstable country already full of refugees from previous conflicts.<p>7) Saudi Arabia. They&#x27;re the ones funding the fanatics. Enough said.<p>8) Egypt. Yet another dictator, vaguely more stable, as ruthless as Assad. They also have permanent Palestinian camps which have been there for decades and clearly don&#x27;t want any more.<p>9) Palestine&#x2F;Gaza or Palestine &#x2F; West Bank. Let&#x27;s not even go there.<p>Ok, let&#x27;s go further then: Libya? Sorry, other war. Tunisia? Another wobbly government, and so close to Europe to make it look silly. Georgia&#x2F;Armenia&#x2F;Azerbaijan? Dictators, guerrillas... Yemen? Other war. Oman? Same guy has been in charge for 45 years. We can go on, but tbh, it&#x27;s all like that. Countries in the region are either f*ed up, autocratic regimes, or are actively sponsoring the lunatics. Decent people have nowhere to go.