Thus The New York Times today, and in an editorial, no less. “The attacks should not be used as a pretext in the west to shut down borders and conflate refugees with terrorism,” elaborates the newspaper. Well put. But try saying anything like this to those who are actually addressed by the article. It would be rejected out of hand, and the key argument would be that one of the eight Paris attackers was a refugee from Syria who entered the European Union in Greece. No counter-argument would be accepted, no matter how well put together. In short, the divisions in the Union are growing to the point where arguing is becoming nigh futile. Those who agree and those who disagree would meet only on the proverbial barricades. Besides, neither those who agree nor those who disagree are in need of any arguments, for they are so familiar by now that they could only bore them. And this is the situation that the Union faces at present. The greater the number of refugees, the deeper the division. And there is no end of the refugee column in sight. Sooner or later, that column will split the Union apart.