04-10-2006, 08:46 PM
Occhidiangela,Apr 10 2006, 03:31 PM Wrote:You are suffering under the standard "security" illusions.
It is a waste of time and money to build a wall. The money spent on troops and surveillance systems to man the border would be money better spent.
The wall won't solve the problem, but building one will waste a lot of money under providing the illusion that 'something is being done.' Think military tactics, and a flexible versus fixed defense.
Unless you'd rather all your base belong to nosotros. :P
Occhi
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That makes sense. I agree its possible that the wall would help but that spending the money on man power would help more.
Im curious about some potential costs.
-cost of a wall?
-current money spent on Mexican border patrols?
-what the projected cost of reducing say 95% of current traffic would be in terms of man power.
But Im not sure your right. an active defense against many individual targets(from an unending pool) isnt always effective like it is against other forces.
Your military tactic metaphor doesnt quite fit.
In a military operation its a disaster to be tied down in defense and to not beable to attack the opponent.
But that situation DEFINES border defense.