Kung Fu Monkey writes:

The generally accepted number for displaced Iraqis is 4 million, with about 2 million mostly in Jordan and Syria, and 2 million kicking about internally. For the empathy-impaired imagine 40 million Americans on the run from their homes, 20 million making do as they can in the US and another 20 million fleeing to Canada, Mexico, and maybe Britain. (numbers for current US homeless bounce between .7 million and 3.5 million, depending on the squishiness of the definition).

For the empathy dead, let me simply point out that a couple million homeless refugee kids living in poverty with (right or wrong) vague memories of America destroying his country = lots and lots of radical fundamentalist recruiting fodder. The word for the decade will be "blowback", folks. Learn it. Love it.

Blowback. Yeah baby.