Refugee posturing by politicians morally misguided

You make your point, William, I have removed the comment, and am now putting it here, slightly altered. I suppose my problem was that the press release left out a step for the average reader, which is how such wars are caused by overpopulation. Without saying this (and I understand that a press release does not give much space) readers could get the impression that candobetter.net endorses the widespread idea that the Middle East is just an out of control high birthrate third world region and always was, which would be very far from the truth. It is that kind of impression that is being used to excuse Australia's mad droit du seigneur bombing venture. The problem is that Syria was in fine shape until 2011, despite the population growth it experienced. It was neocon driven 'interventions' that caused an inflow of refugees from the neighboring countries and it is neocon intervention that drove sectarian conflict. You could say that our resource wars in the area are driven by our huge populations and their need for resources to fuel our industrial economies, but most people would not make that connection without help. At the moment Syria needs all the help it can get, so it is important to show that its problems are not of its own making and to give people details. To do this I prabably should simply have cited parts of your press release in a new article of my own. Sorry; it was an error of judgement, made under the intense stress of our leader taking us into a terrible war that will only make more people miserable and exacerbate population mayhem in that region and in Europe. I felt that it would be helpful to Australians to see how parallel the trajectories of Syria and Australia have been - both experiencing unprecedented population growth due to high immigration since the second world war, because both countries are similarly at the behest of power elite policies. I also wanted to point out how Syria has helped its neighboring dispossessed populations, such as the Palestinians (one reason that Israel targets it). Syria's population growth, like Australia's, has been severely impacted by migration due to wars and economic 'interventions' among its neighbours. Syria is the only country that has given Palestinians their own area and citizenship status. It has also absorbed a large proportion of Iraqi refugees since the US-NATO intervention there. Syria is a non-sectarian state and its president was democratically reelected in June 2014 by an outstanding majority. It is not known for a high birth rate and the birth rate is in decline at about 2.25 in 2014, unlike some of its neighbours, such as Saudi Arabia (Ref: http://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?c=sy&v=25. Feel free to say more, William. You can get your party's message across in this way too.