Merkel had no apparent understanding that it would be impossible to integrate 800,000 refugees in a country the size of Germany in virtually no time and by spreading them out to every hamlet in the country. Of course, there are going to major cultural problems in doing that. What I witnessed in Berlin this summer suggested that this was going to be very unsuccessful in the short term. Not only were there multiple attacks by "refugees" in Germany this summer, but there was rampant harassment of Germans by refugees who did not understand the cultural mores of the country--e.g. women are often scantily clad by Syrian standards. I saw one refugee harassing women on a train and I did something about it and then got the transit police. Even the children at a refugee center in Berlin were quite wild. This was right by a playground and one kid grabbed our soccer ball, kicked it over the fence and then tried to kick it onto the roof before I stopped him. Later I saw him and his brother and sister. The sister had grabbed a large cat by the tail and was swinging it around and about to throw it over a fence. These were young kids, probably 11 and younger. I talked to a German social worker about the situation and she said that the kids would be assimilated over time but the men were going to be difficult to assimilate because most of them don't have the job skills and cultural background needed there. And it is obvious that traumatized kids from the war are not going to be easy to assimilate. This refugee crisis is all caused by an inability to do anything about the Syrian and Iraqi Wars over the past decade.