If a system of government, education, business, science, ethics, etc., etc., is the best in the world, then instead of going out and strategically forcing parts of the world to adopt those better ways of life, should we not instead put more emphasis on accepting, assisting, and providing more expeditious legal means for those that are willing to make the sacrifices and efforts to share in our ways of life?
Should we not prioritize the promotion of our ideals?
Should the benefits of our societal moorings not be proffered first to those that are actively seeking the benefits we enjoy and who are risking life and limb to come to our lands, live, and work among us?
The most important resource the United States can have is citizens. The more capable and productive people we have uniting with us under the same vision of responsible and liberating freedoms - the stronger the nation.
Instead of spending a half a trillion dollars, and over a half a decade, on forcibly compelling a land and its people to adopt our way of life, imagine how those resources could have benefited all, had we spent it on expediting and making more accessible the process for immigrants. Immigrants, mostly people hungry to improve their lives as well as the lives of their families. Instead of losing money in a deteriorating cause we would stimulate the economy with added talent, genius, and workers, and in over half a decade our land would have become increasingly more productive and advanced. Instead of losing a half a trillion dollars we easily would have created that amount along with the potential for continued and greater growth. This would mean: more money for better infrastructure, more money for better schooling, more money for better foods, more money for better technology, more money for better medicines, more research for curing diseases, etc., etc. Instead of the dollar losing value it would increase in value.
There is nothing beneficial about war. War is loss. Lost lives, fortunes, and resources. It is a last resort for when nothing else works for defending oneself. It is the equivalent of chemotherapy, or surgically removing a tumor or limb. War is not edifying, it is by its very nature and definition, destructive. There is nothing glamorous, romantic, or beautiful about war. It is ugly, gruesome, repulsive, revolting, and by nature is designed, and brings nothing but death and destruction. Necessary wars are those that are defensive in nature after all other avenues have been exhausted and resulted impotent. On the whole, for countries and for the masses that inhabit them, war is disastrous, however, unless both sides are annihilated, eventually, there is a side which overwhelms the other. When that happens, people of influence position themselves to lay claim to very lucrative future opportunities, as well as the immediate spoils. Wars are a very effective tool for transferring wealth and establishing networks of power. For people already in positions of power, who don't actually fight on the front lines, the exigencies of war are less weighty than the potential opportunities they can attain. Enticed by wealth and power, the temptation to send others to their deaths for causes less worthy than the value of their own lives becomes a means to an end, collateral damage.
Instead of losing U.S. Americans to untimely deaths or incapacitating and maiming life long injuries let us retain the vitality, energy, and influence of those brave U.S. soldiers. Redirect the energy and money siphoned into selfish war efforts into immigration advancements and we would add new U.S.Americans to our ranks, strengthen the country, create more success stories that would radiate the world over, and reclaim our status of friend to the world and not the next empire on the rise.
Instead of destroying our country's reputation and image among the nations of the world by waging a war of strategic empirical power cloaked in the shrouds of feigned altruism, we would radiate millions of immigrant testimonies; testimonies of gratitude and opportunity which would disseminate from our shores from goals sought out and attained. Those stories of improvement, heard from the mouths of former country-persons, together with no more suffering brought upon people negatively affected by our war efforts, would undermine the hatred and bitterness terrorist cells thrive on for recruitment efforts.
That there needs to be order in the process of accepting new citizens into the country - yes, it is needful. However, this issue must be regarded more pressing than its current status. Along with the new generations of children born into the country, immigration is the life blood of this country's future. Put a strangle hold on these carotid arteries, while we needlessly bleed from wars that destroy our citizens' lives, burn fortunes for tomorrows necessities, and we will soon feel the death throes of the nation.
Inclusion, by furthering the immigration of those wanting to enter the U.S.A., will have greater effects to spread our government process than any other. Initially, there will be little effect, however in the long term a significant critical mass will naturally promote the benefits of their experiences to those they left behind. When enough of those voices are heard, the peoples of different nations will choose the paths that bring them those things they have seen people they trust, obtain. Without compulsory means the people of different lands will of their own free will and choice stand up, organize, and demand to adopt those same processes of success.
It is easier to make friends with those that are interested and seeking out friendship than with those that never asked to be friends. Any person will tell you that willful consent is a far more powerful force for unity than compulsion.
The country's future is dependent on the care and effort we give to the rising generations - the children, as well as the good people seeking to enter into our borders. Let us be wise. Let us give priority and work on the efficiency of bringing them in, you can never have too many brother and sister citizens.
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