A few weeks ago, I attended the annual meeting of the John Randolph Club in Washington DC, sponsored by the paleoconservative Rockford Institute (of Chronicles Magazine fame).  The highlight was a debate on the Iraq War - below are the remarks of longtime immigration activist Peter Brimelow, the founder of VDARE (with which everyone on this site should immediately familiarize himself/herself).  Brimelow says:

“What does it really matter to the Americans if the Iranians rule Iraq? If the Iranians rule Afghanistan? If they eat each other, what does it matter to the Americans, because we’re over here, they’re over there. Unless we let them come over here, and by the way, Cort we can stop that immediately, there is no reason to have Iraqi immigrants and refugees over here. They can’t get at us.

[The British] have massive experience…They had situations like in India, and India is a really interesting case because the relationship between Britain and India was much more profound and far deeper and intimate than anything the Americans have in Iraq, they were there 200 years when they left. They withdrew their troops to the barracks and they just sat there while the Hindus and the Muslims massacred each other. And it was a black day for the British Empire and for Britain’s morale, but guess what? We got over it. They lost between a million and 5 million people when the subcontinent was partitioned, but everybody’s forgotten about it. And if America leaves Iraq tomorrow, we’ll forget about it in 4 or 5 years.

Foreign policy is not a question of emotion, and not a question of morality, it is a question of national interest. So the only question you have to ask yourself in a situation such as Iraq is ‘what is the national interest?’ and ‘what national interest do the Americans have in holding what is essentially a colonial possession?’ There is no doubt about – this is the Algerian War rewrote.

Were the Iraqis crossing the border in vast numbers illegally? Was the Iraqi President trying to influence American politics? Were Iraqi immigrants in the US trying to take over the Southwest and kick Americans around and make them speak Arabic? None of this was true of course – we invaded the wrong country!”

continue reading, the debate was electric!