This proposal strikes me as an extraordinarily bad idea. If you want to degrade an alliance further, the best way to do it is to start treating the other nation’s citizens differently depending on background. Imagine what the reaction might be if Britain decided to require extra clearance for Americans of Irish background, for instance, on the grounds that some of them have backed terrorism. As I said, bad idea.
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Iain Murray is vice president for strategy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
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