Nicholas Kristof has an op-ed piece in the New York Times that focuses on Iraqi refugees.
“American hawks prefer to address the region’s security challenges by devoting billions of dollars to permanent American military bases. A simpler way to fight extremism would be to pay school fees for refugee children to ensure that they at least get an education and don’t become forever marginalized and underemployed.
We broke Iraq, and we have a moral responsibility to those whose lives have been shattered by our actions. Helping them is also in our national interest, for we’ll regret our myopia if we allow young Iraqi refugees to grow up uneducated and unemployable, festering in their societies.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/opinion/26kristof.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Books, Not Bombs
By: Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, 25 June 2008
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