What happened to the civility that used to characterize our society?
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RADDATZ: OK. And you are in Jordan right now and have had quite the trip to visit refugees.
Journalists were not invited to accompany Carson but in a round of TV interviews on Sunday morning, he said he had been “pleasantly surprised” by how welcoming the refugees in Jordan had been. And there was a pretty uniform answer on that.
Ben Carson said refugees fleeing war ravaged Syria don’t want to to be resettled in the United States, but would rather be back in Syria. “So, maybe they can teach us a little bit about how to interpret language”. Because it wasn’t what we’re hearing a lot.
Said Carson: “We must end the war and prioritize helping the millions of Syrians who want to stay near their homes. They want jobs. Do you welcome them into America now?”
“And they can not continue that without help from the global community”, he added.
What the US should do instead, Carson said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday, is offer financial assistance to the refugee camps in Jordan to help alleviate a $3 billion shortfall every year.
“And they’re putting in all kind of things that make life more tolerable”, Ben Carson continued.
“If it’s someone that you know nothing about – they’re presenting you documents that may or may not truly be them, there’s no database to compare them off of, that’s a different story and that’s the point that I’ve made. So you need to be working on some type of mechanism to keep it from being a perpetual turmoil”. So it is possible to sure this up but we really need to look at the things that actually solve the problem. They want to go back home, obviously.
The retired neurosurgeon said that Jordan is a safe place for the refugees, which has “welcomed them with open arms”. He insists that they told him they just wanted to go home.
“The United States must do more”.
In addition, it’s worth looking at the situation at the Azraq camp, which is the newer and significantly more advanced of the two camps that Carson toured. I’m acknowledging that I like to know what I’m talking about. Seeing a fence with holes cut in it that people can easily go through, and that’s barrier. With adequate funding, he thinks they would work well. The family research council according to some government agencies is a terrorist group so let’s get away from the rhetoric and talk about the real problem.
“I would certainly like to see all of the countries in the region focus more on the global radical jihadist movement”.
Then there’s the rather random mention of the U.S. maybe accepting 25,000 refugees but which, as tactfully as the Associate Press could phrase it, “it was not clear what Carson was referring to”.
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“I would use every resource available to us”, Carson said when asked how he would achieve that goal. In the U.S., Congress and many governors are balking at taking in Syrians for fear that Islamic State terrorists will try to slip into the country posing as innocent refugees.
