Posted on 01/19/2015 3:41:44 PM PST by raptor22
Homeland Security: To keep out Islamic State terrorists, the Saudis are building a 600-mile-long barrier — complete with five layers of fencing, underground movement censors and radar cameras — on their northern border. If they can do it ...
Good fences, it is said, make for good neighbors, which on a grand scale was the intent of the Great Wall of China in antiquity and the Israeli fences of more recent vintage. Both were designed to keep out intruders and to make sure all guests were invited guests. Unlike the Berlin Wall, they were built to keep hostiles out, not citizens in.
As the threat of IS terrorism grew in Iraq and Syria, Saudi Arabia decided it might be a good idea to put such a barrier between its citizens and those who might want to kill them. Last September, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud initiated construction of a multilayered barrier that eventually will stretch along the entire Iraqi border from Kuwait to Jordan.
Earlier this month, Saudi prudence seemed vindicated by a suicide bombing and gun attack that killed two Saudi border guards and their commanding officer right next to Iraq's Anbar province. Saudi oil fields might make a tempting IS target. The group has also said its eventual goal is to take over the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
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But, but fences don’t work!!! Heard that from many a FReeper.
“building a 600-mile-long barrier — complete with five layers of fencing, underground movement censors and radar cameras — on their northern border”
What a bunch of racists.
Walls are great features....but there must be a strong deterrent on the other side that will punish anyone “illegal” that crosses it where they the punishment is greater than the reward...until then - it’s wasted money - much like “reconstruction” was in Iraq and Afghanistan!
(Notice I didn't say .. buy it)
sounds great but its 5 or 6 years too late,
the IslamoNazi have snuck (or Obama has paid to bring them) in here, hoardes of them....
doesn’t do much good to build a wall once the enemy is inside your tent
unless we’re ready to expel the Enemy Within
then a wall would make perfectly good sense!
Walls can also keep you in. Better IMO to reduce the ability of employers to hire illegals.
The Saudis are interested in persevering their national identity.
I am totally against a fence cutting off texas from the river, which is the only source of water in the area and basic cedes the entire river to Mexico.
Or like "reconstruction" in the South.
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Saudi style fence from El Paso to San Diego. Letters of Marque and Reprisal along the TX border.
Naah, we don’t export anything except pop culture.
At this point, just walling off the border might not be enough. I suggest we wall off California and the East Coast too, just to be sure. We’ll still have a few bad pockets in the interior, but we can deal with those on a case-by-case basis.
We could send over a couple thousand Mexicans to test it out for them.
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Wow, muzzies building fences to keep muzzies out.
We live in interesting times.
They could make it out of solid gold .....
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