Trump's Mexican Wall: an idea only a moron could love
Let’s put aside paying for the wall. Let’s suppose funds are available.
Let’s put aside if the wall is really needed. Let’s suppose it is.
Even granting all that, Trump’s Mexican Wall is an idea only a moron could love.
Sure, 3,000 years ago maybe a wall (e.g., the Great Wall of China) made sense. But today—with drones, laser so sensitive they can detect a fly scratching its hind legs together, night vision goggles and cameras, satellite reconnaissance, along with computers equipped with artificial intelligence to control it all—a wall makes about as much sense as using typewriters instead of PCs, or horse-drawn wagons instead of cars and trucks.
Remember the 1980’s when the Reagan administration proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative (also known as SDI or the Silly Defense Idea)? That was to be space-based sensors that could detect the launch of nuclear missiles along with weapons under computer control that could react instantly to shoot down targets moving at supersonic speeds.
But today to detect and stop a man and/or woman, travelling on foot, maybe with kids, the most intelligent, cost-effective solution is a pile of concrete??
Somehow, I doubt it.
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