You guys should read this:
He is dead-right about American conservatives framing the world through strict-father morality. Lets punish those 3rd world immigrants for being 'bad children'. American is the world's father, afterall.
Keeping a person in jail takes roughly 30k/year. Putting illegal immigrants in jail is a stupid idea.
And we didn't go to Iraq to stop the violence. If that were the case, this war wouldn't be such a clusterfuck. We went there over American interests. Essentially, it's a modern imperialism -- and has all the typical problems associated with that sort of adversarial situation.
Iraq switching its oil trade from dollars to euros was almost certainly a bigger concern for the American leadership than anything happening to the Kurds.
