The Baghdad Wall
20 Apr 2007 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysengrinAmerican military commanders in Baghdad are trying a radical new strategy to quell the widening sectarian violence by building a 12-foot-high, three-mile-long wall separating a historic Sunni enclave from Shiite neighborhoods.
via NY Times (may be behind a pay-wall by the time you see this). Wonder if there will be a push to relocate Sunni into their newly walled ethnic neighborhood.
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A not so familiar quote to run by...
Date: 2007-04-21 11:54 am (UTC)Because, y'know, segregation was always the solution to life's problems. Couldn't possibly be that THEY are the problem... oh, no, we are giving (read: forcing our) solutions to your problems. It's your fault if they don't work like we say they should...
Did you know they are even thinking of building a security 'fence'/wall between the US and Canada? The world's longest undefended border, a totally friendly neighbour to the North - ya, I can see why we scare them. (eyeroll)