The reformation of the rest
of the world to accept the values of America is the answer to the plaintive
words of the Statute of Liberty. We do not want and have never really
wanted that the tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free feel forced
to come to America as their only hope. We want instead the nations of the
world to move closer to our values and principles.
We want the lands of Latin America from which millions flee to
become lands with honest government, free enterprise, and civic safety – lands
from which people do not want to flee. We want the Middle East to be like
Israel today or like Lebanon and Iran used to be decades ago, nations in which
Jews and Christians live securely beside Muslims, where imperfect democracy and
liberty are real enough that there is no flood of people seeking anywhere but
their native land.
