For the past few weeks we have been seeing thousands of refugees from Syria heading towards Europe to seek asylum as they are running away from the war that has ravaged their once beautiful country, Syria. Boat loads of these Syrian refugees made the perilous journey across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe.
This action taken by the Syrians was initially met with a hostile attitude by most of the European countries they are trying to move to. They stuck to that stance until the some of the Syrians drowned in the sea with majority of the casualties being women and children. Horrifying pictures of children washed ashore on the Turkish coast were splashed across the tabloids and on the television screens and this immediately caused a serious outrage throughout the world.
Now Europe will have to bear the brunt of the thousands of Syrian refugees knocking on their door seeking asylum and safe haven from the civil war ravaging their country. Germany, Britain, France and other European countries then agreed to accept a substantial number of the refugees.
This crisis is seen as the Law of Karma at work. Europe has to bear this headache and learn from it. Several questions come to mind: Who is responsible for the rise of ISIS in Syria, Libya and Iraq? What happened to the political solution suggested by the Russians to end the civil war in Syria? Where does the rebels in Syria and ISIS get their weapons from and their source of funding? Who benefits once the Syrian President Bashar Al Assad is kicked out of power?
It seems the plan did not work in Ukraine and the Russians were able to move in fast and thwart the efforts of the 'Invisible Hands' behind the Ukrainian crisis. This plan was to install a puppet regime in Ukraine and cripple the Russian Naval fleet in Crimea but this did not work. Now the other plan was to make sure Syria had a puppet regime and with Assad kicked out, their friends in Qatar will pump gas through Syria to Turkey and then to Europe. Thus, Europe will no longer depend on Russian gas and this will greatly affect the Russian economy and bring Russia down to her knees. Now this plan also seems to have backfired with weapons falling into the wrong hands thus the emergence of ISIS.
Europe must think of a political solution to the Syrian crisis and as the Syrian president said, he will only step down when Europe is able to deal with the terrorists in his country. Right now, it seems this civil war has turned into a proxy war with the Russians moving in to support the Syrian government to fight the rebels (terrorists).
The earlier a political solution is found to this Syrian crisis, the better for Europe as the Syrian refugees have nowhere to go but to cross the sea and come to Europe. This will be one headache for Europe that even all the pain killers in the world can not cure. Some headaches can be very serious and this one is more than serious for Europe to bear.
