Safebyahare wrote:Blind Squirrel wrote:Safebyahare wrote:Blind Squirrel wrote:
Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.
I will not be removing the fixed fortification around my house.
I will not remove the walls of my house.
They are limited, but work as intended.
They work even better when there is a penalty for crossing while I'm on sentry duty.
I suspect General Patton was not referring to walls intended to offer protection from street urchins.
Well, it's not the Mexican Army coming across.
It's not well trained soldiers on a mission to conquer.
It is in fact a migration of Urchins. (I will call them Urchinians.)
The Urchinians want a better life and free stuff. Our free stuff.
In order to be humane, we need to stop or impede there routes.
To make it undesirable to make the trek.
The Urchinians are draining our schools, and budget.
Do nothing?
Do nothing? No. As in the Middle East, we need to stop with simplistic approaches that ignore contextual specifics/history and mindlessly engage in regurgitation of bygone strategies used with varying levels of success in vastly different situations. An example: Lets carpet bomb the enemy - we did it in Vietnam. I think that was the key to victory so lets do it again. Viet Cong in the jungles in Southeast Asia, ISIS in populated urban areas in the Middle East. Same thing, right?
To make it undesirable to make the trek. ==> Yup, not a wall where if they breach, they are set, and if they fail they just try again. Is a wall the best this country can do to address the problem? Really? That is going to solve it? I guess there is no way human traffickers or individuals could acquire rope and the ability to use it to scale a wall, something that even Trump mentioned in an early debate. Hey, why don't we have Mexico build the wall since they will be paying for it? That would be every bit as shrewd as allowing the Russians to build a U.S. Embassy in Russia which didn't exactly work out as planned. No way to see that coming and nothing to learn from the experience.
Simple Simon Squirrel