I’m beginning to see a pattern. Some conflict (these days largely instigated by Muslims, by Jihadists) ensues, government collapses, US sticks its nose in (think Bosnia), US State Department “welcomes” the refugees created by the conflict, American resettlement contractors get lots of money to resettle them in your towns, they need jobs (meatpackers rejoice!) and social services which you pay for, eventually the conflict ends (think Afghanistan), we stabilize relations (think Somalia), and the refugees go home! Not! They don’t go home. They stay and become Democrat voters.
I have nothing further to say except that I guess it’s time for yet another google alert—refugees Mali— but I do want to save two links here for future reference. One is the State Department briefing today on Africa, here. And, the other is this very amusingly written bit in the Washington Post entitled the “9 questions about Mali you were too embarrassed to ask.”(great music there before the Islamists banned it.)
I have a sinking feeling we will be hearing a lot more about Mali in the weeks and months ahead, and my fervent hope is that Obama isn’t going to turn that country over to the “rebels” as he did Egypt and Libya.