RE: http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,145870,00.html

RE: http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,145869,00.html

At least Mr. Lind is consistent. He has never wavered from his view that monocultural societies are healthy and multicultural ones are not.

It is already too late for the United States to consider itself a monocultrural society. So, America ought to spend the resources needed to enforce our laws and to encourage ethnic communities to support such law enforcement efforts.

We have made these troubles for ourselves. America had a moral responsibility to bring in millions of refugees, displaced by our war against the North Vietnamese in Southeast Asia. We did so, albeit reluctantly at first.

Eventually, we will be faced with the same situation regarding Iraq.

At least 8 million Iraqis have been permanently displaced. They have no homes now. When the ethnic cleansing process has taken its course, most of them will never be able to return. We should be prepared for at least 2 million refugees. This is a consequence of our wilfull destruction of Iraq. The wounds we have inflicted are too deep to heal in a generation.

In our nation of immigrants, the Moslem world is under-represented. I know that Mr. Lind would shudder at the prospect, but a few million more Arab Moslems living in the United States may help us in the long run to regard the Middle East differently.

sorry but I beleive they are more loyal to their religion than they would be to US foreign policy.

I recall people thinking much the same about my ancestors, the irish immigrants. They spoke gaelic rather than english, they were catholic rather than protestant, their youngsters formed gangs, they committed criminal activity, etc, etc, etc.
Yes, some of these immigrants will cause problems in the short run. But in a couple of generations, I predict that we'll be glad to have them. And, they'll be able to explain what America is to their homelands, better than any white middle class American.

Good point, rdelaney.

Something about it all FEELS different. But that's just me. Or is it?