Little Sweden has taken in far more refugees per capita than any country in Europe. But in doing so, it’s tearing itself apart.BY James Traub
| Long piece in Foreign Policy that is surprisingly clear-voiced in explaining how Sweden intends to commit national suicide. The Swedish people do not want this but the Swedish government does. These officials point to the successful integration, in the past from WWII to recently, of Norwegians, Balts, and Bosnians, and assume that today they will similarly integrate Syrians, Afghanis, Iraqis and Libyans. The numbers of refugees are far larger than what the Swedes managed in the past; the refugees are poorly educated and culturally very different (even from the Bosnians), and the Swedish economy can't handle it. No matter; as the progressives like to say, "Forward!" |