In 1939, America denied asylum to a boatload of Jews, forcing them back to Europe, where 254 died in the Holocaust. Will we repeat the same mistake today?

Today there are more refugees than at any time since World War II. Yet once again the United States and its allies are failing to rise to the challenge.

President Obama made important points in his recent speech on national security but none more important than this: “This war,” he said, referring to the