November 18th, 2015

What's happening in Paris, Beirut and Lebanon is sincerely disheartening and it honestly makes me so upset that we do this to our fellow human being. I fully support the healing and growth of Paris after these horrible attacks and send my prayers to everyone effected. I understand why Paris has declared a war on Isis and honestly am not surprised. I'm just wondering when the United States will be next. I think it is extremely selfish of us to not accept at least some refugees. We claim to be some great economic and political power but we are turning away people who are being persecuted. Based on the attacks taking place all over the world, the terrorists are teen aged men or men in their early 20's. I would not be against letting in Syrian women, children and elderly into the United States whatsoever. These people do not pose a threat. It is really frustrating me how people are equating being Muslim to being a terrorist because this is not so. But I feel as though this card is played with EVERYTHING. What is even more frustrating is how people are comparing the British coming to the United States as "refugees" and slaughtering the Native Americans as being on the same basis of countries letting Syrians across their borders but THIS IS NOT EVEN THE SAME THING. I do not deny the horrible atrocities committed against the Native Americans and I feel guilty that my country is associated with this type of genocide, but in this day and age, the Syrian refugee crisis is absolutely not the same thing. In times of crisis people like to bring up almost every atrocity of the past and somehow connect it to the present chaotic state of the world. You can not relate the suffering of the Native Americans at the hands of white Europeans as being the same as Syrians fleeing from their country and other powerful nations not wanting to take them in due to fears of terrorism. THERE IS NO COMPARISON. The United States cannot pretend to act like they are for the well-being of the world's health and that they support diversity and acceptance if we won't at least take in homeless women and children. And then there is the whole argument of "there are homeless veterans/people in the United States and we need to give them homes first before we give refugees a place to live." Right, sort of. Many of these homeless veterans are homeless due to a lack of mental healthcare and mental health awareness, not due to lack of money being spent by the government to give them housing. These men and women are also not being persecuted against, blown up and shot at in the streets of their city because of terrorist groups. It honestly makes me so sad to think that these women and children do not have a place to stay because the United States refuses to take them in. Why can't we just take in these groups if we're so afraid of terrorists, and the only terrorists committing these crimes against humanity are young men. Then there is the argument of there will be terrorists among them. Guaranteed we have American citizens who are inside terrorists and are supporting what Isis has been doing.. I just feel as though as a nation we are so selfish and hypocritical . We also get involved in everything. I feel embarrassed to live in this country sometimes and just feel as though the government is always lying to us and making us feel as though we have a say in things when we actually don't.

End rant.