The Contradictions of Compassion
Ideally, Europeans who are currently welcoming Ukrainian refugees would show the same sympathy to Syrians, Afghans, and other victims of wars outside the continent. But human compassion is a rare enough commodity that we should be grateful whenever it appears.
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NEW YORK – Almost 2.5 million Ukrainian refugees have fled to Poland since the Russian invasion began, and more than 350,000 have entered Hungary. But in 2015, when then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel allowed 1.1 million asylum seekers – about 40% of whom were Syrian – to enter Germany, Poland and Hungary firmly closed their borders to people escaping the carnage in the Middle East.