04-10-2006, 04:08 PM
jahcs,Apr 10 2006, 09:33 AM Wrote:I've been listening to some interviews of folks involved in these protests on the radio this morning. A very common answer to to the "Why are you here?" question are the words "justice" and "recognition."THe fence is only effective when backed up by manpower.
IMHO if justice is what they were after then deportation would be the just outcome, no matter how unattainable that is.
And on the wall debate: San Diego's recently improved barrier sections are being shown to reduce the number of attempted crossings in that area. I'm sure many of the folks are just rerouting but why make it easy for them?
Also the Minutemen posting along sections of border are working with the border patrol to report illegal crossings. Other than the "vigilante" rhetoric I have heard that they are fairly effictive.
EDIT: Any solution that takes more than 5 minutes or 5 dollars will not be popular with the American people. Do the majority of voters in this country have the willpower to have our elected officials actually make tough choices and stick to them? I doubt it.
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The operations that we supported with tactical air strikes, mid 2004, along the Syrian Iraq, and the Iraqi Saudi border didn't need a wall. Sadly, they tended to be an economy of force, and thus routinely underresourced. Central Iraq tended to get all the troops, since that is where the civil war as going on. During those weeks when border security became the main effort, it was remarkable how quickly the trickle slowed down.
It helped that the RoE was permissive.
Occhi
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete