Noem's 'Travel Ban' Targets Nations US Arm Sales Destabilized
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, fresh from a meeting with Trump, is recommending a sweeping travel ban on 'every damn country that's been flooding our nation with killers,' according to Axios. She cited the shooting by an Afghan national as impetus. Missing from this righteous indignation is any introspection on the parade of US interventions—from coups to sanctions to proxy wars—that
have destabilized the very nations now deemed 'failed states' and sources of global migration. It's always easier to blame the 'other' for problems often exacerbated, if not directly caused, by decades of US foreign policy. The hypocrisy echoes the familiar pattern: fund a dictator, bomb a nation, then clutch pearls when its displaced citizens seek refuge.