For decades, American foreign policy has followed a troubling pattern. They destabilize a region through military intervention, watch the humanitarian crisis unfold, and then absorb the refugee flows that predictably follow. Iraq. Afghanistan. Libya. Syria. The geography changes but the cycle does not.
This is not a partisan observation. It spans administrations, both Republican and Democrat. The neoconservative architects of the Iraq War and the liberal interventionists who cheered the Libyan campaign both contributed to this pattern. The bipartisan foreign policy consensus has consistently failed to account for second and third order consequences, and ordinary Americans on both ends of the political spectrum are left to debate the fallout at home while the architects of these policies face zero accountability.
You cannot separate immigration policy from foreign policy. They are two ends of the same thread. If we want to seriously address migration pressures, we have to seriously address what creates them. That means ending the reflexive interventionism that has defined Washington for thirty years.
