Thread: Gwynne Dyer On Security Fences

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From the VDARE Blog: Gwynne Dyer on Security Fences
By Allan Wall

Is the U.S. wall on the Mexican border (such as it exists and might exist) a unique case among the world's borders ?

Not at all, says Canadian columnist Gwynne Dyer , who, in a recent article[The Good Fences Epidemic Gwynne Dyer Jerusalem Post Feb. 14th, 2007 ], provides a handy summary of various countries building security fences to keep out unwanted intruders.

Thailand is walling off Malaysia, India is fencing off both Bangladesh and Pakistan, Pakistan is putting up a fence on its border with Afghanistan, China is walling off North Korea, Uzbekistan is fencing off Tajikistan, The United Arab Emirates is building a fence on its border with Oman, Kuwait has one on its border with Iraq, Spain has fenced off Morocco, and Morocco has fenced off Algeria, Saudi Arabia has been fencing off Yemen, and Israel has set up security barriers on its borders with Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria and has been walling off the Palestinians. Dyer indicates that the most sophisticated security barrier is the one Saudi Arabia is setting up to wall off Iraq:

"The new wall will include buried movement sensors, ultraviolet night-vision cameras, face- recognition software and quite probably automated weapons in addition to the usual electrified fences, concertina wire, dry moats and mines."

"By comparison, the apparently endless debate about building a relatively low-tech fence along the 3,360-km. US border with Mexico to cut illegal immigration seems like an echo from an innocent past."

As for why we can't build a better one on the Mexican border, Dyer hits the nail on the head:

" The reason that the United States is incapable of controlling its Mexican border is political, not financial or technological: powerful domestic lobbies work to ensure a steady supply of 'undocumented' Mexican workers who will accept very low wages because they are in the US illegally. President George W. Bush has now been authorized by Congress to build a fence along about 1,125 km. of the Mexican border, but he will stall as long as he can while experimenting with a so-called 'virtual fence.'"



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Sounds like the building of fences is the bussiness to be in today! very profitable huh!!We probably won't get our border secure until Bush is out of office and only if we put the right person in in 2008.

I agree Sosadforus. Let's hope a patriot gets the job.

Rep. Duncan Hunter has promised that the approved 700+ mile will be completed within 6 months of him taking office as President of the United States. I believe him, especially since he was a co-sponsor on the fence legislation. He wants that fence!

Originally Posted by MW

Rep. Duncan Hunter has promised that the approved 700+ mile will be completed within 6 months of him taking office as President of the United States. I believe him, especially since he was a co-sponsor on the fence legislation. He wants that fence!

I think he is one of the few you can believe!