There are now two major migrant crises in flow involving boats. One is in the Mediterranean and the other is in the Andaman Sea. Both involve people fleeing terror, persecution or poverty. Europe is rescuing those it finds but has no idea what to do with the rescued or where they are to go. In Asia the policy appears to be more or less to let desperate people drift on the high seas until they either starve or drown.
The latest European initiative promulgates sinking migrant boats before anybody boards them. More bombing? That is all the West does now; bombing. In spite of the fact that it solves nothing in the long term and appears ineffective in the short term. What is needed is a recognition that much of this crisis is due to misguided Western foreign policy and the rest of it is due to the widening inequalities and real suffering caused to the have nots in the headlong dash for globalization. The West is driving that too. Thus it is that it will soon have to face up to the fact that it will have to take these desperate people in. Most of them anyway and shared everywhere. No exceptions or excuses.