You want to make belittling remarks to minimize my great country I thought it only fair that you tell us what good deeds your country has done.
Being you are embarrassed to tell us what country you are from answers my question......
I'm not embarrassed. I'm not responsible for my country's government mistakes. As you're not responsible for your own country's government mistakes. But you defend them. That's the problem.
You have a touching faith in the veracity of Syrian elections.
The main problem that have been debated (by foreign NGOs) was the fact that these elections took place during a civil war. Nothing about a hypothetic massive fraud. I have no particular 'faith'. I'm only saying this is not the priority. We'll talk about (Western) democracy in Syria later. There are more important things to do, especially when we have groups of violent islamists trying to control the country. Next to Libya, another country where we brought freedom and democracy.
Stable in the sense that freedom of speech, the democratic process and there right to free assembly were brutally suppressed. Stable? No, A reign of terror? Yes.
Jon, you need to know a little more about the history of the country and the whole region before you start making projections of your own vision of a perfect Syrian society. The democratic process you're refering to didn't appear out of nowhere in our Western societies. It took a lot of time, and the fact that it happened in (historically) Christian countries is probably no coincidence.
To me, forcing our democracy ideals to non-Christian countries is a bit naive.
Anyway, as I said earlier, the governments who make wars in the name of democracy are hypocrites, most of the time. Democracy is just an excuse. Real reasons are less idealistic and much more political.
Better perhaps than yourself. Because of the work I do and the place I am right now
You're in Saudi Arabia, right? That's where my Syrian friend lives now too. I'm not sure she would compare life there with life in pre-civil war Syria tho.
And meanwhile, the county's citizens are risking life and limb to make a long and deeply unpleasant journey to freedom, leaving everything behind (assuming their houses are still standing). Hundreds of thousands of them, and many more in refugee camps elsewhere. One reason why the humanitarian crisis is so urgent and good that the EU (especially Germany) is not ignoring it.
Syrian citizens are fleeing the civil war, not the regime. The regime was there before.
I found Merkel and Germany's position on the refugee crisis quite hypocritical. German leaders and employers have vital (I mean economic) interests in taking lots of refugees. Germany's demographic trend is not good, this is no secret. So this has little to do with charity.
As to Poland, I have no idea of Poland's capacities to welcome so many people.
And let's face it, migrants don't want to go to Poland. They'd rather go to Germany, Britain, or Scandinavia.