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US latest gem for Iraq: let's build walls!
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6579335.stmA senior Sunni politician has condemned a US military project to build a concrete wall around a Sunni enclave in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
US forces say the wall, which will separate Adhamiya from nearby Shia districts, aims to prevent sectarian violence between the two communities.
But Adnan al-Dulaimi, who heads the biggest Sunni bloc in parliament, says it will breed yet more strife.
Some Adhamiya residents have said the wall will make their district a prison.
Straight out of the Israeli Book of Inter-community Relations, obviously.
You have to laugh...
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But sure aye lets just not try to find out the underlying reasons for sectarian strife and just build a big wall and separate ourselves, never liked the other side in the first place anyway! :rolleyes:
Why? In less than 250 years America has gone from a few settlements to the greatest nation on earth. It's when they try to build other people's nations that the problem starts.
Greatest nation on earth? Richest maybe, not greatest. They've got the highest levels of every social problem and the lowest levels of every social merits (well, of all the rich countries anyway). Not that the UK can talk. We're not far behind.
Not really. You're viewing the U.S as some sort of monolithic entity. There's 300 million peopel in it ffs. There's lots of morals and social merits in the U.S.
No moreso than anywhere else.
Of course, I just don't like this assumption that the U.S is some sort of monolith i.e. full of criminals and war mongering rednecks.
Oh no, I was just on about their military.
That^
Ah well. We condemed Russia for it in Berlin. Now we copy them.
SIGH.
Berlin Wall was to keep its people inside, not to stop them killing each other so its not the same thing
Certainly the number of bombs going off inside Israel has gone down since they built the walls and the peace walls in Northern Ireland kept there from being nightly riots in parts of Belfast. Also seems similar to the methods which defeated the communist insurgency in Malaya.
Its easy to condemn, except for the fact they often work...
It was to keep the west (rich) out, and the east (poor) in.
This is to keep the Rich safe, and the poor out. How is it not similar?
The Berlin Wall wasn't designed to keep anyone out.
These walls are designed to keep bombers out and innocents safe...
When have you ever seen a segregation wall that benefits people on both sides?
But then that's not what the Iraq walls about is it?
And its hard to argue that the Israeli Wall hasn't stopped people being turned into bloody chunks....
The wall on Iraq is only going to alineate communities further. I guess the US is happy to try anything rather than opening its eyes to the problem and facing a few truths.
At their best as in Northern Ireland they reduce violence to such an extent that conversation with the other side is possible. When you have that you can talk about justice and then the walls come down.