Feb 012013
 

I generally take a “government-hands-off” approach to internal ethnic strife in other nations. If the Hutus and the Croats want to kill each other in Bosnia-Herzarwanda, sending US troops into the middle just seems like a way to get US troops killed to no good effect. (Mercenaries and volunteers, on the other hand, are perfectly fine.) I’m *really* not a big fan of the US shipping in large numbers of refugees and setting them up all in one spot. One rare occasion, though, the irrational and unthinking discrimination some cultures whip up towards some of their own people demands that the US do something. Take, for example, this problem in North Korea. Clearly, the US needs to rescue these folks and welcome them in.

I think we can find room for these refugees.

 Posted by at 9:06 am