We Americans have not been honest with ourselves. We have not owned up to the fact that the largest exodus of people migrating northward into Europe is on account of our war, aka Bush's Folly, which resulted in a political vacuum in Iraq which Bashar al-Assad quickly filled, resulting in the war spreading into neighboring Syria. Now, after completely destabilizing the Middle East, we want to wash our hands of the whole thing and pretend that the mass migration of people into Europe had nothing to do with our votes for George W. Bush and his Congress which voted overwhelmingly to go to war in Iraq, thanks mostly to Republican intimidation and Democratic cowardice (with notable exceptions like Ted Kennedy.) The bishops are doing a good thing by reminding people that we have a responsibility to at least help clean up after our mess by opening a door to the very people we drove out of their homes because of a war that George Bush fought to finish off his daddy's grudge with Saddam Hussein.