BUILDING A MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR ZONE

The military approach we are taking to the Mexican America Boarder is not only surprising but also shocking.  Two Senators, +Bob Corker (R-TN) and +John Hoeven (R-

ND) put forward an amendment calling for 20,000 more Boarder Patrol agents and an additional 700 miles of fencing. The senators added this amendment as an incentive for Republicans to pass the immigration bill—it worked—it passed.  

Republicans are building the equivalent of the Maginot Line, the very expensive line of fortifications between France and Germany after world war one. We have the Second World War as evidence it did not work. I also think of Singapore where the British, the greatest naval power in history at the time built fortifications including especially huge and very expensive guns pointing out to sea—protection from naval forces that were, by any measure, greatly inferior to theirs. It was only realize that it was nonsense when the Japanese land forces, riding bicycles, successively attacked from across the Malayan Peninsula. We have the history of Iron Curtain, the Bamboo Curtain, and the Berlin wall. These Senators seem to be looking for an opportunity to show their ignorance.

Can Republicans seriously believe their fantastically expensive plan will solve a problem of 11 million Mexicans dreamers already in the United States? I have news for Corker and Hoeven; Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831), book on military strategy, is out of date. Those who see the dreamers as enemies have to realize their proposed big expensive “guns” are pointed in the wrong direction: the enemy are already on their bicycles in the front yards of homes in towns and cites all over the United States. They are already behind your lines. It is no longer big guns, flame-throwers, trenches and fences; it is time for negotiation, reasonable compromise, and diplomacy and not a war zone.

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