And I hear Manzanar is nice this time of year
By Victor Davis Hanson assumes the Virgil Goode position on immigration:
Remember that many of the 9/11 terrorist murderers had lived for long periods in the United States — dressing, talking, and entertaining themselves like Americans, as they despised the very culture they apparently enjoyed.
The father of the Muslim Brotherhood, Sayyid Qutb, developed much of his hatred of Western culture — Jazz, informality between the sexes, casual dress — through his residence in the United States. The Third Reich recruited terrorists to attack Americans from those Germans who grew up in the States.
Those imperial Japanese generals and diplomats who fought the most fiercely against the Untied States — Admiral Yamamoto, the architect of Pearl Harbor, General Kuribayashi of Iwo Jima infamy, and the pro-Nazi Foreign Minister Matsuoka — were precisely those who had lived in the United States and attended its universities.
In this regard, would it not be wise for a variety of reasons, and until this war is over, not to let thousands into the United States from the Middle East? They may well end up hating us more, not less; and they may think there is to be no penalty for the extremism of their governments. I’d like to see fast track admission for allies like the Poles, British, or Danes, and no-track for the Pakistanis, Saudis, Syrians, or Egyptians.
He forgets, of course, to mention that an astonishingly high percentage of slave revolts were led by people of African descent who — having dwelled for long periods of time in the British colonies and the United States — came to despise the very culture they apparently enjoyed.