(satire) *‘Bon Appétit’ Publishes Blank Issue After Nothing Sounded Good.* *The U.S. needs to make its asylum policy clear. It needs to define who it will allow to seek asylum and apply that standard without discrimination.*

If we do this, we should not expect the same results for Haiti and Afghanistan, because there objective differences between the two situations.

Afghanistan has been taken over by a government that seems to be trying to kill people for having worked with the US. That gives many Afghans a claim for asylum under international treaties. Although many Haitians have suffered greatly, and part of the cause is due to US wrongdoing, they are not facing murder or torture if they remain in Haiti.

The US should do something to help the destitute people of Haiti, but giving some of them asylum is not the only way, or necessarily the best way. Perhaps aid to poor people in Haiti would do a better job.