Writing through my pain and anger on the Syrian refugee crisis
I'm trying to figure out how to write about my feelings right now - and more than that, what to do about the incredible injustice that keeps occurring in the Middle East - and is now reaching Europe's shores. This is a global humanitarian crisis. It is heartbreaking like others. In their home countries, innocent people are stuck between two parties with no respect for human life. As they desperately try to escape, they are being denied any level of dignity. I can't understand how people can ignore the humanity and suffering and desperation and respond as they are with ignorance, silence, and violence. But past pain, I also feel anger again tonight. I am angry because the West, now grappling with this "sudden" crisis, is not blameless in the violence in Syria, and the instability throughout the region. It has been many of our own actions that have led to the instability and nearly continuous violence now plaguing the majority of the Middle East. Euro