Camp of the Saints: A Midsummer’s Evaluation

With 2011 now half over, it appears that the Mediterranean refugee crisis is not as bad as the Italian government feared it would be. The year-to-date total of boat people is still under 50,000, which makes it unlikely that the numbers will reach the flood of “biblical proportions” — between 250,000 and 500,000 — originally predicted by the Italians back in February.The situation in the Med has