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Sophia4

(3,515 posts) Wed Jun 20, 2018, 08:37 PM Jun 2018

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How does Trump's idea of a wall differ from the "Iron Curtain" that separated Eastern [View all]

and Western Europe for decades?

Trumps' wall would be an even thicker edifice.

The concept is unacceptable.

What keeps people out also keeps people in. The wall would make us less free.

No way should we have a wall between our country and any other country.

I lived not far from the Iron Curtain, and I know what its existence did to the people around it.

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How does Trump's idea of a wall differ from the "Iron Curtain" that separated Eastern [View all] Sophia4 Jun 2018 OP

I agree TEB Jun 2018 #1

The difference is that the communist wall was to create a prison for it's subjects and they were braddy Jun 2018 #2

It's just a matter of time, and this wall will serve the same purpose. Sophia4 Jun 2018 #6

The part you're not getting is that Trump wants the wall as a monument to Trump world wide wally Jun 2018 #3

The Only Physical Wall was Dividing Berlin Ccarmona Jun 2018 #4

The Iron Curtain was a barbed wire fence with gun turrets placed at certain intervals, Sophia4 Jun 2018 #5

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