''Poor Jordan. A small, economically precarious country, it shares a
two-hundred-mile border with Syria. Yet unlike Syria’s other neighbors,
Turkey, Iraq, and Lebanon, it rarely gets any attention in the
international press. Indeed, while the world focuses on the European
Union’s controversial deal with Turkey—in which Ankara has agreed to
limit the number of asylum-seekers hoping to reach Greece’s shores in
exchange for a lavish foreign aid package from Europe—hardly anything
has been said about this crucial American ally on Syria’s southern
border. But as I observed on a recent visit, Jordan is struggling to
cope with vast numbers of refugees and an alarming rise in extremism. We
ignore it at our peril..''
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