As the migrant crisis in Europe continues, many Syrians, as well as experts and various countries might disagree on how to properly approach and solve the situation, but there is one thing they all agree on: the blame for the situation solely falls on the U.S.
Rzgar Abdul, a translator turned migrant, says that ISIS began to proliferate in the Middle East only after the U.S. left, according to the Washington Post.
"Iraq's problem is America's problem," he said, noting that his status as an American translator during the Iraq war made him a target. "This crisis is America's problem. In Iraq, Syria, all over, the U.S. did not do enough."
Similarly in Germany, the political left and right, who rarely concur on anything, came to a joint agreement that the U.S. is to blame for the refugee situation.
Sahra Wagenknecht and Dietmar Bartsch, deputy chairpersons of the Left Party in the German Parliament, called out U.S. policy in the Middle East in a paper last week, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.
"Killer gangs, such as the Islamic State, were indirectly supported and without hindrance supplied with money and weapons from countries including those allied with Germany," the two stated, apparently referring to initial attempts to back rebels fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Others have argued the U.S. did not do enough to back the rebels and remove Assad and blame the Obama administration's lack of action as the cause of the ongoing crisis, reported U.S. News and World Report.
Conversely, the U.S. says the accusations are overblown, citing the CIA's $1.4 billion effort to fund early attempts to unseat Assad. Similarly, experts have argued that no one could have forseen the magnitude of the war in Syria.
"It's too easy to blame the U.S. for these waves of refugees and asylum seekers," said Stephan Mayer, spokesman for the Christian Social Union, a part of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's governing coalition. "This isn't caused by the U.S."
