And what are they supposed to defend their homes with? You sound like an armchair quarterback. If an army is moving upon your house with high powered weapons and rockets, and you have nothing, what are you going to do? Throw potatoes at them? The idea isn't to scold them, the idea is to use this as a reminder never to give up arms.
When I was in Ar Ramadi Iraq in 2003, I watched a man try to refill his radiator on his car. He was dipping a water bottle into raw sewage running down a street.
I think people forget that if the water system fails in that part of the world, you are within 3 days of death.
I don't feel sorry for they guy in Iraq or the people that live in Homs, all of them need to fix their own counties.
Right or wrong, good or bad, It does not matter to me, but I spent 20 years of my life making sure Oklahoma does not look like Homs. Syrian refugees need to fix their own country and not be a burden on other nations because they are cowards.
Anyone have a little more sympathy for those Syrian refugees? I have zero sympathy for people who are not willing to defend their own homes.