A World of Walls

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http://www.gwynnedyer.net/articles/Gwynne%20Dyer%20article_%20%20A%20World%20of%20Walls.txt

"(T)he highest priority now is to get a high-tech barrier built along the 900-km (550-mile) border with Iraq." ""If and when Iraq fragments, there's going to be a lot of people heading south," said Nawaf Obaid, head of the Saudi National Security Assessment Project, "and that is when we have to be prepared.""

SA is building a wall not to stop the supplying of the Sunni in Iraq, but to keep out Iraqi refugees.

"(T)the fence that Beijing is now building along its own frontier with North Korea is a precautionary measure to stop an immense wave of refugees from entering China if the regime in Pyongyang collapses."

China must not have great hope of the current round of negotiations improving conditions in NK any time soon."

"India is now building an even longer barrier (3,300 km., 1,950 miles) to halt illegal immigration from Bangladesh."

Another fence to keep out immigrants and refugees.

He has interesting observations about border fences in Thailand, Palestine, the US, and EU enclaves in Africa. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, it seems like all border fences are build to keep the "furiners" out rather than your people in.