Here in the US, among other things, we could stand a real hard look, and real, meaningful action on our borders to halt illegal immigration in its tracks and ensure that our immigration policy is made healthy and then maintained strictly through legal immigration.
I can't disagree with anything you said. I'm a little puzzled by this Africa comment, but heck.
That's another part of the short term equation. Blair's smart enough to know Africa's going to remain basket case
until the French are gone, the Swiss/Luxemborg/French/Caribbean bankers are gone, the envirowackos are gone, the
American Poverty Pimps are gone, Karl Marx is gone, the Chinese are gone....
It's nothing more that feel good razzle dazzle that can turn out to be expensive for the US taxpayers.
Bush wastes enough of our money on useless "fixes" for third world problems.
Let Blair tax the @sses off of his constituents.
This should be the most important issue for our government to address. But it isn't, or at least if it is, the heart of the problem isn't being addressed. Unfortunately, no real immigration reform or serious border security will happen until a tragedy on a massive scale happens. After all, the attack on 9-11 what it took to get serious about Bin Laden and the unchecked threats in the Middle East.
I honestly believe any lesson we could have learned on that day has already been forgotten by our PC, afraid-to-offend, "tolerant" population.