Who fill the roads, and arrive to the borders (and eventual refugee camps) destitute, exhausted, famished, and at their wit's end. The other side gets to feed, house, treat, transport them--just to get to be able to get back to the business of advancing on your positions.
Then begin the meme that it's all the other side's fault anyway, and look how shabbily those poor people are being treated...
Unfortunately, it works. Think Europe in the 40's. Korea. Cambodia. Viet Nam and its Boat People. The Marielitos. The latest war in the Balkans. Palestine.
It works like a charm. Every time.
Here's hoping the world gets these poor folks out of the line of fire, and as many of them from overseas home as quickly as possible.
And, that in the aftermath, some sane people can sort Libya out. This is tragic, no other word will do.
This further from the BBC.
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