Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Western Refugee Crisis

In his memorable "Letter From a Birmingham Jail" the legendary civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr. intoned that "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." At the time he was talking about the interconnection between Atlanta, Georgia, and Birmingham, Alabama, or, more broadly, the racial situation in America. However, we can see how that applies to the refugee crisis plaguing Europe and America today.

The wars that are the root causes of the refugee crisis in the West today are either direct or proxy wars fought on behalf of the West. These wars have been fought on the Machiavellian notion, articulated by Condoleezza Rice, that it is necessary to fight a war in another's country so that another's country could be plundered rather than one's own. Machiavelli apparently did not see the fact that plundering someone else's country in a war may occasion the refugee crisis we see today. Machiavelli's idea is based on the assumption that it is better to commit injustice in someone else's country than in one's own. However, with the refugee crisis today, we are seeing that Martin Luther King, Jr. was right. Because Iraq and Syria have been plundered, Iraqis and Syrians are flooding into Europe, throwing the place into confusion.