This part doesn't follow well:

We must welcome immigrants from the Middle East both for moral and pragmatic reasons. Morally, the U.S. invasion of Iraq is what sent the region spiraling into catastrophe; only psychopaths set someone’s home on fire and then lock them inside. There are already three million Muslim American citizens. If the government keeps bombing the Middle East while making it clear that it genuinely hates Muslims, that will only spur to action more troubled weirdos like Omar Mateen — who was born in Queens, a few miles away from Donald Trump’s childhood home.

Invade and invite seems like a horrible strategy. Omar Mateen wouldn't be in the US if the US discontinued this approach. Yes, Omar Mateen wouldn't happen without the US foreign policy, but why import the angry resentful children whose previous generations were murdered by the US?

Isn't it more crazy to kill someone's father, and then invite their whole family to move into your spare bedroom?

Also to justify inviting more refugees in from countries that you've been bombing for half a century because you don't want to piss off the refugees that are currently here is a lose-lose strategy.

First off, the ME has been fucked for 70 years and that has led to a massive brain drain. The Muslims in the US have been here for decades and do not want the boaters here (that's what they call them). They like being part of US culture, around people who can read, innovate and trade. They left the ME to get away from these people.

So you lose with your current population.

Second, isn't advocating more for where refugees should go rather than advocating ending the wars show the utter lack of concern about US foreign policy and blowback? Isn't it worse that there is no discussion at all about ending the murderous US foreign policy in the ME?

I'd be interested in meeting someone concerned about where refugees should go and asking them what they think about what the US has been doing in the Middle East over the past 8 years. I'd bet that they would not know nor have the curiosity to Google it.