Kerry's Borderless World

From the Washington Examiner:

Secretary of State John Kerry took a shot at Donald Trump during his Friday commencement speech at Northeastern University, by saying no wall is big enough to keep dangerous terrorists out of the United States. 

"Many of you were in elementary school when you learned the toughest lesson of all on 9/11," he said. "There are no walls big enough to stop people from anywhere, tens of thousands of miles away, who are determined to take their own lives while they target others." 

"So I think that everything that we've lived and learn tells us that we will never come out on top if we accept advice from sound-bite salesmen and carnival barkers who pretend the most powerful country on Earth can remain great by looking inward," Kerry added. "And hiding behind walls at a time that technology has made that impossible to do and unwise to even attempt."

..."For some people, that is all they need simply to climb under the sheets, close their eyes and push the world away," Kerry said. "And shockingly, we even see this attitude from some who think they ought to be entrusted with the job of managing international affairs." 

"The future demands from us something more than a nostalgia for some rose-tinted version of the past that did not really exist in any case," he said. "You're about to graduate into a complex and borderless world." 

Kerry forgets one important thing: We cannot continue interfering in other countries at the same time we aim for a borderless world. Imagine if he had said the same thing in World War II?

I hate to use phrases from religion to support political ideas, but this one applies here:

"And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise."--Luke 6:31

If we want a borderless world, then we must behave with utmost honesty and consideration ourselves. Bombing Syria or keeping troops in Iraq or Afghanistan is NOT the way to behave. Do unto others...

I am also reminded of the words of Ronald Reagan:

I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it and see it still.

Robert Frost once said, "Good fences make good neighbours." There are two foundations to a good national "fence": The military and the legal system. The military protects us from other countries, as the legal system protects us from the intrusion on our rights by the actions of others.

Reagan recognized those "fences", or walls as he called them, must be there, but with open doors for anyone to enter. If people want into our country, that is fine, as long as they enter legally, under our legal system. Of course, it is up to us to offer them the open door within our walls, and burdensome immigration laws are NOT an open door.

In summary, we do not need walls like Trump proposes, nor do we need open borders in the face of our own aggression in other countries as Kerry proposes. What we need is a simple and just legal system, with doors for anyone to enter, even as we present the "shining city" example for the rest of the world.