Great news!

Some really good news today: Ethnic Karen refugees from Burma who are living in camps in Thailand (in miserable conditions) will be allowed to resettle in the US! Previously they were barred because many of them had provided "material support" to the Karen National Union, a rebel group which fights against the (evil) Burmese government, which put them in violation of the USA Patriot Act.

So there is now a little recognition within the US government that all terrorists are not the same. There are those who rape and murder innocent civilians (aka the bad guys, like Minni Minawi, who I wrote about earlier - why oh why was our government sucking up to him?), and then there are those who fight against oppressive human-rights-abusing governments and leave the civilians alone (aka the good guys).

Maybe there is a little hope for us after all.