This quote was from two "immigration lawyers" writing in today's NYT: "It should be the national policy of the United States to forthrightly and unapologetically attract the best minds from all over the world and turn them into assets of the United States."
Ned finds such an attitude unworthy of any country that professes a shred of moral decency, but, for a country like America, which touts itself as the world's standard for purity and morality, it is disgusting. Here's why:
How many would constitute the "best" minds? Would it be ten million? A hundred million? There is the story told about George HW Bush offering amnesty to any Chinese who felt "oppressed" after Tienanmen Square, a cynical and hypocritical ploy if there ever was one, but we digress. The Chinese Premier was overheard to say, 'Well, we have 1.2 billion. How many would he like?"
The idea that other countries should pay to educate their citizens so that the US could conscript them into some sort of materialist consumerist Bedlam which is increasingly this country is reprehensible, degrading and outrageous. How are these countries supposed to pull themselves out of poverty and ignorance if their "best" minds leave?
"For what profiteth it a man, if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
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