No nation exists in a vacuum

No nation exists in a vacuum

Obama Administration thinks there is virtually no limit to what the U.S. government can and should do (unless it involves protecting our national security), but allowing this to happen is the height of irresponsibility

Send the kids home, for their own good

No nation exists in a vacuum, and it’s naive to think the United States can exist in isolation from the rest of the world. Sometimes an event that occurs halfway around the world will affect us, and have no choice but to involve ourselves in it



But that doesn't mean we have to let other countries dump their problems on us when they are perfectly capable of dealing with them on their own.

The United States has done just that by deciding to let unaccompanied children from Central America be dropped on our doorstep, and instead of immediately returning them home (once we make sure they’re OK, not sick, not starving, etc.), putting them instead on airplanes to various parts of the U.S.

That move has even come as a surprise to some U.S. governors, particularly Democrat Deval Patrick of Massachusetts, who had no idea the feds were flying some of the children to his state until the kids showed up.

Now this is obviously not the fault of the children themselves, who have no say at this point in their lives over what is happening to them. But the governments of their home countries are responsible for making sure conditions are acceptable for all who live there, and that includes children. When these governments decide they can’t govern effectively enough to ensure humane conditions for their citizens, what they need to do is examine their policies and adopt better ones - not dump their children on our shores.



And the worst thing we can do is exactly what Vice President Biden did the other day, when he went to Guatemala and announced that the U.S. will spend $40 million to prop up educational and economic conditions for Guatemalans.

No. I want these to improve for these folks too, but they have to do it! Not us.

My wife and I have had two children of our own, and when they were growing up, they would occasionally bring other children home with them. Sometimes these rug-rats were hoping to be fed. Now I love children and I’m happy to share, but if I didn't know these children and couldn't make sense of why they were in my house, I would send them home. That was for their benefit. Absent some familiarity with their parents, I didn’t want to run the risk of enabling the people who should have been feeding them to unload that responsibility on me. It’s not because I minded doing it. It’s because I wasn't the one who was supposed to be doing it.

We do not help the children of the world by encouraging other governments to dump them on us. We would help them by making sure everything we do incentivizes their own families and their own nations to create an environment that will keep them safe and secure.

I realize the Obama Administration thinks there is virtually no limit to what the U.S. government can and should do (unless it involves protecting our national security), but allowing this to happen is the height of irresponsibility.

For their own good, send the kids home.