Opinion: There are still 14 million displaced Syrians in crisis. We must listen to their stories. [Opinion]
is a professor of Middle Eastern history at UC San Diego. He spent two and half years living in Syria as a Fulbright scholar from 1998 to 2002. He lives in Golden Hill.
What has the U.S. done to ease the disaster? What can be done now? Those are the questions we will discuss.Twenty years ago last month, the United States invaded Iraq. The invasion unleashed what was then the most serious humanitarian crisis since the Second World War, and destabilized the Middle East in ways still unfolding today. Millions of Iraqis fled the violence America brought to their country, and more of them went to Syria than anywhere else.
In 2011, during the Arab Spring uprisings, Syrian demonstrators challenged the authoritarian structures and corruption of their government. They were met with ferocious oppression and violence, and in turn, some came to answer regime violence with anti-regime violence, albeit never at the same level of destruction and loss of life. The world denounced the cruelty and violence the Syrian government unleashed on its own people, but no one did very much.
As in the 1930s and the Second World War, displaced people found many doors were closed, and some, like Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, were slammed shut, accompanied by a global tide of anti-immigrant, right-wing populism. A few countries reacted with a view to history, and the responsibilities of safety and privilege, notably Germany, Sweden, Canada and Austria. The refugees included doctors, engineers and people who contributed immediately to their new countries.
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