Ben Franklin's little truism and Germany's misapplied search for moral authority

“For the want of a nail the shoe was lost,

For the want of a shoe the horse was lost,

For the want of a horse the rider was lost,

For the want of a rider the battle was lost,

For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost,

And all for the want of a horseshoe-nail”

Germany’s basic law of asylum created as penance for the Nazi holocaust perpetrated on the world years earlier was misapplied in an altruistic search for moral authority only to ignite nationalist excesses in all of Europe. Misapplied because the law was not meant to cause a mass migration. Germany made itself the nirvana at the end of a trek of unspeakable hardships and has put upon nations without means the obligation to shelter, transport and police refugees making their way through.  All for the want of the United Nations Food Aid to Syrian refugee camps in Jordan left unfunded in 2014. At very little cost in comparison, Germany could have made these camps the nirvana Sunni refugees fleeing al-Assad’s Alawite tyranny could trek to and then organize and invade Syria in an Exodus like manner to establish their own city states along the Jordanian border as sanctuary. Rather than budget on accepting another two hundred thousand refugees this year maybe Germany should consider using the money on a Jordanian plan to divert the flow and and possibly attract some of those in Germany back to Syria as well, and thereby dampen those ugly fires in Europe.