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The problem is now and it is in Europe.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/britain-to-take-more-refugees-as-cameron-bows-to-pressure-after-more-than-100000-back-our-campaign-10485195.html Britain to take more refugees as Cameron bows to pressure David Cameron bows to pressure   Cameron "bows to pressure" and is expected to announce that Britain will accept more than a thousand refugees from UNHCR camps on the border of Syria. A "knee jerk" reaction forced upon him by public and political pressure, to a problem he should have been addressing for months. Even then, Cameron leaps to the wrong conclusion either by accident or more probably design, and fails to recognise the reality.    The refugees in the UNHCR camps on the borders of Syria, although not l iving in the lap of luxury, have the basic necessities of food, shelter, water, sanitation and medical care provided by the UN and other voluntary organisations.  Refugees wait to board a train at Budapest ...

How will arming the parties in a civil war bring about "peace and stabilty"?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/02/david-cameron-migration-crisis-will-not-be-solved-by-uk-taking-in-more-refugees David Cameron: Britain should not take more Middle East refugees David Cameron: "try to bring peace and stability to that part of the world". "Cameron insisted the best solution to the crisis was to bring peace and stability to the Middle East" It is indeed ironic, that Cameron should use this phraseology, at this time. It would appear that the vast majority of those refugees locked out from Budapest's Keleti  railway station, thousands more in Greece and Serbia and yet thousand more crossing the Mediterranean (and many being drowned in the process), are in fact from Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.  Perhaps Cameron and other members of his government could explain how a long term solution, like bringing "peace and stability to the Middle East", will solve, or at least improve the current crisis, today or tomorr...