From: "John Beamish" 

I find it somewhat fascinating that the US is now building a contempoary
equivalent to the Iron Curtain, the Bamboo Curtain (in the east) and the
Berlin wall.  Europe, meanwhile, is busy lowering barriers.

On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:08:46 -0500, Adam field.near the bridge">
 wrote:

> Mark wrote:
>> You're right, that is a current and growing problem -- neither Bush and
>> the
>> Reps, nor the Dems of future power are willing to do anything about it
>> in
>> time. They're throwing the political "700 miles of fence" football
>> around,
>> but their hearts aren't in it and the odds are it'll be undermined one
>> way
>> or another (I see the environmentalists are already floating an
>> "endangered
>> jaguar" canard) and never get anywhere near that many miles built, if
>> any.
>>

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