I'm baack

I've been out of it for a long time now. Last night, I watched a show on FSTV about a reporter whose name I can't remember that has been covering Iraq as an unembbedded reporter. I was able to sit through the whole thing. What I gathered from it is: we're fucked. We have screwed those people so incredibly inhumanely that we'll have enemies for many generations. Sad beyond sad.

Did I miss something? Why the recent interest in border patrol and immigration? Did some big thing happen, or is it just another distraction?