The Tides of a Future History

With only a couple of weeks before the mid-term elections we have highly publicized immigrant caravans marching from Honduras through Guatemala and Mexico toward the U.S. border.  The timing seems contrived.  Such a trek is expensive and it is amazing how much news coverage is being devoted to the caravans.

I am currently reading a book called, "Inside the Revolution," by Joel C. Rosenberg.  It covers the history of the rise of radical Islam which led to the attack on the twin towers and the expanding global terror in the name of jihad.  I mention it here because the book reviews the failure of the U.S. leadership as well as the leadership of other countries to recognize the rising radicalism and how it could ultimately impact our country and destabilize the world political systems.

Could it be that a similar failure is occurring even now as we watch the unfolding battle between law and lawlessness in our own country?  The caravans are only one of the many symptoms.  The general incivility of many groups is another.  Violence is becoming a first resort -- not the last.

In most parts of the world a migrant caravan would be met with an escort to a refugee camp.  If they are indeed attempting to escape an environment of danger from lawlessness (which is being claimed), why should they be allowed to enter our country by unlawful means?  Political refugees should be given asylum through following appropriate steps of vetting and education to our legal and economic system.  Systematic, orderly handling of them is called for, not the idea being espoused by many of opening our borders to an uncontrolled flow.

The American people are blind to world events and the effects of events occurring in other countries.  Too often we duck our heads and just say, "leave us alone."  That approach will lead to cataclysmic events such as the bombing by jet of the World Trade Center.  We must learn to "see" with wisdom, not with a selfish insular pride in our accomplishments.

The issues are global and we will not be left untouched.  We must control our borders, but we also must realize that conditions elsewhere drive the behaviors that will undermine our security.  Our greatest export is Capitalism and the rule of law through a system of governance that protects the rights of people from the overreach of oppressive or chaotic rule.  Government should derive from the consent of the governed as is inherent in the design of our Constitution.  Instead, throughout much of the world, people are treated as the expendable pawns of those who would accrete power and wealth in an insatiable quest for more.  Wake up America.