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...being the right to work relentlessly for the opportunity—not a handout; just a chance—to enjoy some of the prosperity that most Americans take for granted. On the other hand, I recognize that the availability of cheap immigrant labor lowers wages for some of America??s poorest citizens. The assertion that immigrants only take the jobs Americans are too proud to do is both xenophobic and false. Immigrants take the jobs that Americans won’t do for low wages. If immigration stopped, the grapes would still get picked. Agribusiness owners would...
...values. Wire-tapping on American soil, torture in Iraq, lack of fair trials for detainees at Guantánamo, and qualms with the new UN Human Rights Council are the perfect examples that extremists like to quote. Al-Qaida, North Korea, Iran, and Sudan are beneficiaries of America??s impasses. To those radicals’ dismay, our ideals of human rights, freedom, and democracy do lead to a better world. And, in memory of the terrible Latin American decade, we must apply them uniformly and categorically, not merely as rhetoric leitmotifs. Memory requires bravery but also consistency...
...preliminary matter, direct financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority government is already barred by law, absent a rarely-used presidential waiver that such assistance is in America??s national security interests. Such a waiver will certainly not be granted as long as Hamas controls the Palestinian Legislative Council...
Some nevertheless argue that America must cut off all aid to any organization that interacts with the Palestinian government (however indirectly) in order to convey the depth of America??s disapproval of Hamas. But the U.S. has made its disgust with Hamas abundantly clear in a variety of other ways, including refusing to engage it diplomatically. Maintaining aid to moderate, reformist Palestinian NGOs will hardly undercut that message; it will in fact reinforce...
...failed Iraqi state is not in America??s interest,” he said...