I think that Mary Anastasia O’Grady is engaging in wishful thinking in her latest Wall Street Journal column:
I am reminded of the observation attributed to Winston Churchill that “Americans will always do the right thing, after having exhausted all the alternatives.†The right thing to do about the migration crisis is to return to a U.S.-led pro-growth agenda for the Western Hemisphere. Unfortunately all other alternatives aren’t yet exhausted.
Where she is mistaken is that South and Central Americans suffer from bad government, government for the benefit of the lucky few. There is literally nothing we could do or could have done to change that.
Our Central American neighbors have never really trusted us. From 1890 to 2010 we’ve used military force or our intelligence services against them more than 50 times. Our advice falls on deaf ears. Everything we say or do is suspect.
