Waves of refugees from Syria and elsewhere have flooded the borders of European countries, and the socialist democracies there are largely taking them in. Germany's Angela Merkel is all for letting refugees pour into her country. The crisis raises a number of existential questions for the West. Do Western countries have an obligation to take in these people? What will this influx do to the revered culture of Europe? Why is Barack Obama insistent on following the same path as Europe?