Congressman to Reintroduce Legislation Barring Travel From Iran

With every diplomacy tool in the US toolbox available, a Congressperson decides to take a page from the 50-year failed playbook of Cuba diplomacy?

That's a lot of questions, Stuart, most of which have nothing to do with banning immigrants or visitors based on their nationality. I reiterate the need to bring our troops home; we are overextended - I am confident in our armed forces' ability to defend us from here on our home soil. They are being separated from their families, often leaving young children forever without that parent. ( See S-N's own lens-hero Q Madp's ever-growing list of these young Americans' tragic ultimate sacrifices to two wars waged for reasons not yet understood by their grieving families and friends here: http://www.iraqwarheroes.org/ ) We've lost more troops than we lost innocent civilians, police, medical personnel and firefighters on 9/11; I think most would agree this is no optimal outcome. Our troops' presence in foreign lands only makes them a convenient target for the hateful extremists to which you refer, who would be just as happy fighting amongst themselves as rigging up IED's for our under-equipped troops. The Soviets couldn't beat down the Afghans, and neither can we. We are creating enemies by our imperialistic presence much like the UK did here a couple centuries + back. If you've anything constructive to say, perhaps a suggestion of actionable merit, bring it. Anyone can identify a problem - problems are pretty obvious. Solutions are a lot more difficult to see, as they require foresight. We are squandering our resources and sinking into seemingly insurmountable debt. Closing down a couple of costly wars and a number of bases rendered obsolete after the ending of the Cold War might be a start. I have more ideas, but I've strayed off-topic enough for us both.

Recently Sen. John Kerry was refused a visa to visit Iran, so was that a step backwards by Iran Jeff Kaye? By the way Jeff do you feel that keeping enemy combatants in Cuba gave us a black eye around the world? So if we close this place as Obama campaigned on (he also campaigned on transparency to have Healthcare legislation put live on C-SPAN), would moving these combatants to places here in the states have the same negative effect? Should we just let them go and not even bother grabbing the enemy on the field of battle and pursue intelligence that can save American lives? Or should we just not take any prisoners? Of course the other option is to fight them here? Have you got the training and weaponry to deal with them yourself if they come knocking on your door? These Jihadists have a mission and that is to kill everyone that does not go along with "their program!" They hate all those who do not follow their beliefs and our policies are irrelevant to them in regards to their endgame.

This makes about as much sense as criminalizing voting for a politician with a surname for a given name (present case excepted), and represents a giant STEP backwards in US-Iranian relations. You can't blame an entire people for the saber-rattling babble of its delusional leadership. Were that the case, Americans could not have traveled or emigrated to any foreign land during the eight years a certain "Born again Christian" president recently took us boldly and blindly into two unwinnable and seemingly endless wars. If we ever get out of there, our reputation will remained forever tarnished. We should cut our losses, bring our young soldiers home before they all suffer incurable PTSD, and start working on education, job-development, housing the homeless, feeding the starving and providing options for affordable health care here at home, rather than chasing ever-more elusive enemies around deserts and mountainous morasses at Israel's misbegotten behest.