” Mr. Cain often says he told the caller that he had recently returned from China, and if the Chinese could build the Great Wall then America could build a border fence. “
It apparently took centuries to build the Great Wall
and it’s not a continuous wall, but, a series of short walls
because of the terrain.
I’m on my third trip to my city planning and zoning commission
to get approval for a backyard garden shed .
The logistics , red tape and legal challenges to building an actual fence of over 1200 miles would no doubt
be a lengthy nightmare.
If we can send a drone to kill al -Awlaki in Yemen, we should be able to effectively use them to patrol the border.
Perry has been calling for strategic fencing around the
larger metropolitan areas since he announced
in August .
In addition to Predator drones, cameras and
thousands more National Guard troops in the more rural areas.
There’s going to need to be a way to intercept interlopers, on foot or otherwise. Cain tossed out the idea of the killer fence, which would shorten the spans that need to be patrolled. If a drone spots something, is it always going to be possible to meet that something on foot or robotically? I do not call it impossible, but it’s something the best minds of the Pentagon will be needed to engineer.