Iroquois Lacrosse Players Lose Passport Dispute With the British - NYTimes.com

This is the kind of story that strains credulity and sadly illustrates what happens when insensitive bureaucrats get in the way of common sense and just doing what's right. (Click the headline to go there)

The fault lies on both sides of the Atlantic. The Brits are just being plain stupid, but the Americans? Hey, we RAPED the American Indian, shoved them onto 'reservations' that, face it, are nothing more than patches of wilderness nobody really wants, and then we do our best to forget they're even there.
We will never be able to clean the Indian blood from our hands, but in little, piddly situations like this, we have got to step up -- Geez, these guys invented lacrosse! Can you imagine a worldwide basketball tournament without a USA team?