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Generously accepting political refugees should be treated as separate from the larger immigration debate. The cause of Iraqi Christians is just and their numbers are small. Turning our backs on them would be contrary to America's most basic values, while demonstrating yet again that Washington can be counted on to forget its friends. That surely is not a lesson the administration should allow to emerge from its policy in Iraq.

There is no consensus about the best strategy in Iraq, but there should be agreement about the importance of protecting Iraq's dwindling Christian community. This is one moral obligation America should not break.

Doug Bandow is Vice President of Policy for Citizen Outreach and author of Foreign Follies: America's New Global Empire (Xulon Press). He is writing a book on religious persecution abroad.

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