Republicans are spitting feathers because Obama has said he is going to allow 10,000 Syrian refugees into the US. Now - I am not even American, or perhaps I've been here too long and I have somehow become one without noticing. But Saudi Arabia is a big, huge, practically empty country, they could take in thousands of Syrian refugees and not even notice them, but they don't want to because they are afraid that there might be militant jihadists among them.
What am I missing here?
Can someone explain to me - this foreign bystander - why they are coming to the US instead of going to an Islamic state, where they can fit in a great deal better than they would be able to here? In modern parlance "I can't get my head around it".
And that's my little op ed for the day.
Changing the subject - I found something while surfing the internet which rather intrigues me. Montana is the only state in the Union which allows a couple to be married without either of them being in attendance. I just wonder how that works, if anyone knows anyone in Montana perhaps you would ask for me. And more importantly, why would anyone want to? Isn't the new dress, all the attention, the excitement, the champagne - the main reason for getting married? I can't think of any other reason.
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