A unified front on the migrant/refugee crisis, and Turkey

Given the situation in Syria and for different reasons in numerous other places from Afghanistan to Iraq, the already difficult problem of the migrant/refugee crisis is fast emerging as a long-term challenge.

Greece is particularly vulnerable because its geography means that tens of thousands of refugees fleeing war and economic migrants fleeing terrible conditions in their countries regard it as the easiest gateway into the European Union.

Everyone has some share of responsibility for the situation in Greece. After being elected in 2015, leftist SYRIZA found itself facing a problem that some of its officials failed to acknowledge the gravity of. It also failed to account for the tolerance of Greek society - of ordinary people, not "far-right extremists." What was already a major challenge became even bigger as a result of ideological fixations and incompetence under...