Syrian Refugee Crisis

Video Link - The Economist - Syrian Refugee Crisis

I found this video on the Syrian refugee crisis from the Economist, a trusted online and published source for news all over the world. It is essentially detailing how many refugees are within and outside of Syria as a result of the Syrian civil war that is currently taking place. They are living in camps in the surrounding countries of: Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan and Iraq. The video mentions the particular trouble for Lebanon because of the type of government they have (which we discussed in class) and because their country's forces are spread particularly thin right now. Each country is the home to many new refugees, all of them are currently housing over 10,000. Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan are currently housing over 100,000. There are also a large amount of citizen's still within Syria who have been displaced and are moving from town to town to avoid the fighting. This evokes a lot of questions relevant to our course: How is Lebanon's government going to handle another refugee population very similar to the Palestinian one many years ago? What position will the United States take and as a superpower will they intervene in the fighting? How long will the government of Turkey, the United Nations and UNHCR be able to provide for these displaced people? Was the Arab Spring really a turning point or did it just make things worse for the vast majority of Syrians?