Dahon wrote:Salandriagado wrote:Yes it is. Because the options are:
1) Take the refugees in, giving them one hell of a reason to like the USA.
2) Leave them there, both pissing them off and leaving them in a position where they are continually exposed to terrorist recruitment.
One of these leads to an increase in terrorist attacks against the United States. That one should be avoided.
If the whole lot of those refugees -- or even a minority of them -- at least adhere to ideologies unpopular to the masses of beneficent Americans (if not actual terrorists), then they should stay out, lest America become Islamistan.
If the US were taking in 300 million refugees, that might, just might, be an argument. It still wouldn't be a good argument, but there would at least be something there. As it is, there isn't.