"Among the myriad disasters visited on Iraq since the U.S. invasion of 2003, one of the least discussed has been the mass exodus of Iraqis from their homeland. That is somewhat ironic, since it is this disaster that is likely to spawn the most dire long-term consequences -and not just for Iraq, but for the entire world.
It is a cruel axiom of history that those with the financial resources and/or acumen to flee a country's civil war are the very ones most needed to rebuild it once that war has passed. It is also an axiom of history that the longer such refugees stay abroad, the less likely they...