Two Bad Choices

The U.S. cannot afford the Iraq/Iran War and amnesty too. One has got to go. The choice isn't easy.

Every immigrant family headed by a poorly educated immigrant, which is to say, most of them, costs the U.S. $1.2 million over a lifetime. In contrast to mainstream media myths, they don't make the U.S. richer--they are driving us into third-world poverty. One hundred years ago, the immigrants who came to this country were better educated than the average American citizen. Now they have much lower academic skills. We hear all the time about their much touted desire to work. That may be true of some of them but plenty of others (or the children of immigrants) end up joining gangs, committing pedophilia or, the big one, driving while drunk.

As for the Iraq War, it was one conflict that never needed to be fought. We get attacked by Osama Bin Laden from Afghanistan and the very next morning Wolfowitz rushes into the Oval Office to tell President Bush "We must attack Iraq." The alleged reason was Saddam's weapon's of mass destruction. The real reason was the neocon's desire to protect Israel. The neocons didn't care. They were tough. They were willing to fight to the last dead American soldier--if that's what it took--to make the world safe for Israel. By today, which is to say Memorial Day, over 3,500 American soldiers are dead. Also 35,000 to 200,000 Iraqi civilians and four million more have fled the country.

As I said, choosing which one to end first is a tough choice.