Two recent Christian Science Monitor Editorials lend support to the key policies in the search for peace in the Mideast and the immigration / border issue.
PEACE IN THE MIDEAST
If you read an earlier blog, the two key ingredients to a long term solution for peace in Iraq, and the entire Mideast are direct discussions with Iran and Syria and "positive disengagement" with Israel. The following excerpt from the CS Monitor Editorial supports this:
"The Iraq Study Group...might suggest that the US work with both Iran and Syria to leave behind a stable Iraq. The price for such 'help' may need to be US pressure on Israel to create a viable Palestinian state as well as make concessions to Syria in Lebanon or over the issue of the Golan Heights"
"...Israel cannot damage US interests in the region by clinging to Jewish settlement in the West Bank or its hold on the Golan Heights, taken from Syria."
IMMIGRATION - BORDER POLICY
Another CS Monitor editorial supported the main point of this candidate's immigration/border policy. That is: While border security is important, the US must spend more attention and resources on enforcement (particularly businesses employing undocumented aliens), and on assistance to Mexico (on the scale of the Marshall Plan to post-WW II Europe.
"If anything would be 'comprehensive' beyond better enforcement at the border and in the workplace, it would be for the US to both assist and encourage reform in Mexico. Large-scale reform of that nation's uneven, slow-growth economy would reduce the desire of its citizens to flee north for a better life. Bush and the next Congress would provide carrots and sticks in trade and financial policies to help Mexicans love their country more."
Three cheers for these endorsements of the only sane policies for peace in the Mideast and prosperity for our neighbors to the south.
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