"If war is inevitable, we can't expect every refugee to pick a side, or pretend to pick a side, like plenty of us have been doing." Alright, that's not exactly what people working on these problems have been telling him, but he ain't dim. "There's either going to have to be a serious, aggressive push for peace by natives on both sides and refugees alike, or we're going to have to absent ourselves-- which brings a whole host of new problems."

The implied power vacuum, for one, and for another - who knows what the winner of the inevitable conflict might choose to do about them after.