What the author conspicuously doesn't mention is what exactly brought that "centuries-old tapestry" to an end.
I'll tell you what, Congressman Fortenberry:
Introduce a bill to apprehend every member of the Bush administration and both Houses of Congress who authorized that disastrous invasion of Iraq in 2003, strip them of all their assets, and give that money to these ISIS victims over there in Iraq.
Then imprison every one of those @ssholes -- one year in prison for each U.S. soldier and innocent Iraqi civilian whose lives were lost in that disaster. That should keep Gitmo open for another 50+ years.
Come back to me with a sob story about that sh!t-hole after you do that. Maybe I'll have an ounce of energy to devote to the cause at that point.
“To create lasting success, an additional security footprint is urgently required...”
Ah, so we need to send more American soldiers to put themselves between these folks and their enemies, for the foreseeable future, since there is no sensible plan to make these people able to defend themselves.
This is a group of groups of people that should be granted asylum in America but without aid beyond settling them initially in the first month. Religions sponsors should be sought and will be found but no government money should go to those sponsors. This sort of refugees becomes solid citizens and does not add to Democrat vote totals. The Vietnamese and the Cubans are good examples.
America demolishes Christian civilization, and Russia defends it.