Saturday, February 14, 2015

Should US Consider A Major Wall Across The Southern Border?


Wait Until You See What the Saudis Are Doing to Keep ISIS Out…


saudi-arabia-Throughout history, countries have built walls to protect themselves. Americans, however, have been ambivalent about committing 100 percent to building a wall to keep out illegal immigrants and terrorists who try to breach our southernborders. We might learn from one of our allies, which is completely clear about the need for a wall and going forward full speed.
Last week, a Saudi general was killed in a skirmish with ISIS at the border with Iraq, along which Saudi Arabia is constructing a 600-mile-long wall:
The prospect of this wall separating Iraq from Saudi Arabia is not a welcome one for ISIS, whose goals include capturing Saudi Arabia – home to the Holy Mosques of Mecca and Medina.
Saudi Arabia’s oil fields are another key strategic goal for the terror group intent on creating a Sharia-run caliphate.
Construction began on the wall last September and, according to Jane’s,
“…consists of 78 monitoring towers, eight command centers, 10 mobile surveillance vehicles, 32 rapid-response centers, and three rapid intervention squads, all linked by a fiber-optic communications network.”
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The Kingdom is also creating a 1,000 mile wall along its border with Yemen to the south.
If the Saudis believe a wall is the answer to security threats from beyond their borders, why do some Americans doubt it would work for us? There are some major differences.
First, the U.S.-Mexican border “wall” is actually just a fence rather than a wall with fully integrated security. Second, the Saudi wall is being built across the desert, while the American border involves a river with abundant wildlife. Finally, many property owners on the border oppose building a physical barrier across their land.
Because Saudi Arabia is a kingdom that is ruled with an iron hand, and the United States is a democracy, security decisions are made very differently. Here, major decisions, whether they are implemented through legislation or administratively, are subject to public scrutiny and public input.

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