"I could have ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Instead I ended up at Yale."

No "thank you, America?" "Taliban" does mean students, after all. Yale is probably shocked, shocked it is encouraging terrorism.

A former official of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan is studying at Yale on a U.S. student visa. Why worry about the ports when the government allows stuff like this?

Democracy is doomed in this country because of the Civil Service laws. Elected officials come and go, but the bureaucracy goes on forever and can't be made to work intelligently. Worse, if often thwarts the policies of the representatives of the people.