USA = ISRAEL????
In my nightly browsings online due to an intense boredom I came across an interesting and troubling article on the NYtimes.com. The article highlights the United States plan to build a 12 foot high 3 mile long security wall to quell sectarian violence in Baghdad. Is this what the troop surge is for, so they can construct a wall rather than actually effectivley make Baghdad safer?
The reason I relate the US to Israel in this case is because it appears they both want to seperate a nation with walls for security. For those of you not aware Israel has been building a 20 foot high security wall to pretect its settlments many of which are in Palestinian territory but that doesnt stop Israel from evicting Palestinians and building the wall around where there homes used to be as well. The strategy in Israel no doubt works and that is because Israel is an apartheid nation. They seperate the Palestinians with walls, require ID cards everywhere and assign them all seperate license plates so they can be idenitifed. Not to mention they completely restrict their economy and trade as well which is nice of them. If thats not blatant and illegal segregation from a nation that in the eyes of international law(and myself) shouldnt exsist. This wall and apartheid in Israel creates more enemies than it saves Israel from by alienating a population and subjugating the palestinians to second class citizens.
Obviously this wall will be immensley popular with the Iraqi people for the same reasons the wall in Israel is so popular. By seperating the Sunni's and Shiites with a wall the US will more than likely not eliminate the sectarian violence. What they will do is create more animosity towards the US troops already in country for segregating the population. What comes next are we going to tattoo the different sects to tell whose who, we already right on them in marker to tell whos been searched and treat them like they arent people. And why is that? Its because the US army is not trained to do police work nor is it capable and that is what we are asking them to do. The key fact being overlooked here is that the majority of Shiite and Sunni's are not killing each other. It is a small segment of the population that is performing these killings and in many cases appears to be involved with the Iraqi police or army that we created. By building a wall it is almost as if the US is hiding the problem rather than solving it. But hey, George W Bush seems pretty good right now at pretending problems dont exsist. Just look at how hes dealing the the Justice Department issues, there aren't any, just ask him, just like his plan works in Iraq.
The reason I relate the US to Israel in this case is because it appears they both want to seperate a nation with walls for security. For those of you not aware Israel has been building a 20 foot high security wall to pretect its settlments many of which are in Palestinian territory but that doesnt stop Israel from evicting Palestinians and building the wall around where there homes used to be as well. The strategy in Israel no doubt works and that is because Israel is an apartheid nation. They seperate the Palestinians with walls, require ID cards everywhere and assign them all seperate license plates so they can be idenitifed. Not to mention they completely restrict their economy and trade as well which is nice of them. If thats not blatant and illegal segregation from a nation that in the eyes of international law(and myself) shouldnt exsist. This wall and apartheid in Israel creates more enemies than it saves Israel from by alienating a population and subjugating the palestinians to second class citizens.
Obviously this wall will be immensley popular with the Iraqi people for the same reasons the wall in Israel is so popular. By seperating the Sunni's and Shiites with a wall the US will more than likely not eliminate the sectarian violence. What they will do is create more animosity towards the US troops already in country for segregating the population. What comes next are we going to tattoo the different sects to tell whose who, we already right on them in marker to tell whos been searched and treat them like they arent people. And why is that? Its because the US army is not trained to do police work nor is it capable and that is what we are asking them to do. The key fact being overlooked here is that the majority of Shiite and Sunni's are not killing each other. It is a small segment of the population that is performing these killings and in many cases appears to be involved with the Iraqi police or army that we created. By building a wall it is almost as if the US is hiding the problem rather than solving it. But hey, George W Bush seems pretty good right now at pretending problems dont exsist. Just look at how hes dealing the the Justice Department issues, there aren't any, just ask him, just like his plan works in Iraq.
posted by the meathaus at 11:58 PM
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