>Even the didactic Good Samaritan, the biblical exemplar of looking after your fellow man in his time of need, didn't install the victim in his own home. He put him up in an inn:
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>Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan while traveling came near him; and when he saw him, he was moved with pity. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, having poured oil and wine on them. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. The next day he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said, ‘Take care of him; and when I come back, I will repay you whatever more you spend.' Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?” [The lawyer] said, “The one who showed him mercy.” Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”
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>Of course Trump is painted as the cruel Levite. However, Trump proposes to set up safe zones (inns?) in Syria which idea is gaining support in the Middle East.
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>As an aside, it's not just wealthy Middle Eastern nations refusing to take fellow Muslim Syrian refugees. Japan is not taking *any* Syrian refugees, The rationale is that Japan has too much to get sorted in the existing population first. So presumably the Japanese must be Nazis and White Supremacists along with the Saudi Arabians, both of whose consulates will be stormed by angry protestors any moment now. ;-) But Japan is being a Good Samaritan by providing huge funding for humanitarian services and if Trump can work with the Russians to set up safe zones, it might yet be possible for those poor people to go home. Perhaps we all should pray that Trump manages to sort out this awful mess caused by predecessors.

I get it that your comment is meant to be facetious, though surely, I think you'd agree that Japan, Saudi Arabia, etc are not obligated to subscribe to American or even western values, so they'd probably care very little about any protests outside of their borders.
I completely agree that the Middle East refugee crises were much better to have been addressed locally (similar to the late deal - fragile as it is - between EU and Turkey that stemmed the refugee flow into Europe through Greece), and I hope that this would be the long term solution. However, the situation NOW is, and many see it as the highest priority, the humanitarian crisis.
The failure of the world to deal with the complexities of the conflict in Syria where - Assad and the Russians supporting him, the anti-Assad rebels, ISIS with Iran fighting them and supporting Assad - have all been competing forces... in which the US hesitated to intervene, is really something that Trump is very unlikely to fix by himself. He'd need all the allies he can get, and possibly many of them in the Muslim world.
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