Quote:Was he here on a student visa? I'm not defending him I'm just pointing out that ending student visas might be counter productive.


The real issue has been our preemptive foreign policy since WW2 that has us interjected into all theses tribal and regional conflicts. Every time we try and fix a mess over here we kick 2 hornets nest over there.


All the safeguards we've established, the NSA bulk collection of data and monitoring social media, the patriots act, the department of homeland security, the TSA, none of them knew this was coming nor was there anything they could do once it started. I guess that's my point we can give government all this authority to protect us but the reality is they can't.


now id agree with an argument that nations deemed hostile towards the US shouldn't be on the visa list but then you have to ask who qualifies hostile or friendly states?

^This. So much.

 

I'd actually argue it goes back even further than that, at least to the 1918 partitioning of the Ottoman Empire as it pertains to the Middle East (and possibly back to the Crusades if you include Western Europe in the conversation), but the period immediately following WWII is when the US really started getting itself mixed up in everything.

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