Refugee Crisis

More on the refugee crisis in Iraq. The numbers are staggering.

U.N.: 100,000 Iraq refugees flee monthly
"Much of our work in the three years since the fall of the previous regime was based on the assumption that the domestic situation would stabilize and hundreds of thousands of previously displaced Iraqis would be able to go home," Redmond said. "Now, however, we're seeing more and more displacement linked to the continuing violence."

Is there a plan, any plan, to deal with this humanitarian crisis? Not only will these people need to be repatriated, housed, fed, and provided with some prospect of employment, but there will also be serious security considerations. Since it was the danger of sectarian violence that caused them to flee, there is certain to be danger of attacks on these people as they attempt to return to Iraq.

Yet another problem for which the US in not prepared.

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