Politics Securing The Border With A Wall, Duh

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  1. barfo

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    The question is whether step 2 is necessary or not:

    1. Build the wall
    2. Wait 2000 years
    3. Turn into tourist attraction

    Not sure Americans have the patience for step 2.

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    I'M CERTAINLY NOT HANGING MY HAT ON THE MOST CORRUPT AND INEPT PRESIDENT IN HISTORY.
     
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    China's Great Wall is still to this day the most effective border security measure in their extensive border security arsenal.
     
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    This is a rather Trumpian lie. Nice job.

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    The great wall of China did not stop anyone, unless it was manned by a very large army.

    When the guard was reduced, people got past the wall into China. Enough got in to conquer China, twice. And that is leaving out what Japan did to them in WWll,
     
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    wow...just wow...you realize that wall didn't keep out the Mongolians eh? It literally protects nothing even though it's 5,500 miles long and has been rebuilt from dynasty to dynasty, the original wall doesn't exist anymore........cheaper for you to just wall in your property and avoid traveling to Central America or Mexico. The great wall of china is a graveyard of slave laborers...the emperor that came up with the idea went crazy from drinking rice wine in porcelain cups that was toxic...they didn't know...he killed a lot of people for his crazy wall....now I understand why you like the idea so much.
     
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    The Great Wall is now a ruin, as it's first sections were originally built over 2,000 years ago, added onto throughout the centuries but eventually left for decay. It served it's original purpose for most of those 20+ centuries.

    Ghengis Khan and his Mongol Horde were completely repelled in all attempts to cross the wall, but eventually traveled around the wall to invade as it was not completed at that time, only large unconnected sections existed.

    It is true the then-decrepit wall did not stop Japan from invading with bombers and fighter jets in 1933, but it is indeed credited with being the difference that allowed a tiny Chinese force armed with swords and clubs to hold off Japan's enormous, modern military for several months, and much like the Alamo inspired Chinese to enlist and oppose the occupation until Japan was eventually defeated in 1945.

    It is considered by historians to be the single most important and effective man-made defensive structure in the history of the world.

    Since our wall's purpose is simply to keep freeloaders, drug smugglers and terrorists from sneaking across the border, not jet planes, tanks and armed forces, it's just plain stupid for anyone to claim it won't do the job. They know they're lying and we all know they're lying.

    When you have to lie to achieve your goal, it's a given that your true goal is a lie also.

    http://web.cortland.edu/wangh/project1/wall.htm
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Great_Wall_of_China#Modern_China_(1911–present)
     
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    A wall won't keep anyone out. That money would be much much more effective spent on electronic surveillance and more border patrol agents. If you're bound and determined to throw good money away on a useless wall, why not get Mexico to pay for it. Sly, proposed that you start a go fund me account.
     
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    Genghis Khan (1162 - 1227), the founder of the Mongol Empire, was the only one who breached the Great Wall of China in its 2,700-year-history. In his lifetime, Genghis Khan led his Mongolian army to break through the Great Wall not only once, but several times at Wusha Fortress, Juyongguan, Zijingguan, and Tongguan, etc.
     
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    An ironic choice for rebuttal.

    The Washington Post is nothing more than a Jeff Bezos anti-Trump lie machine, a political propaganda rag that serves no legitimate purpose in the field of journalism.
     
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    Nope.

    In the 13th century, the Mongol leader Genghis Khan, once a vassal of the Jurchens, rose up against the Jin dynasty.[109] In the ensuing Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty, the nomadic invaders avoided direct attacks on the Jin fortifications. Instead, when they could, the Mongols simply rode around the walls; an effective example of this tactic is in 1211, when they circumvented the substantial fortress in Zhangjiakou and inflicted a terrible defeat upon the Jin armies at the Battle of Yehuling.[110] The Mongols also took advantage of lingering Liao resentment against the Jin; the Khitan defenders of the garrisons along the Jin walls, such as those in Gubeikou, often preferred to surrender to the Mongols rather than fight them.[111] The only major engagement of note along the main Great Wall line was at the heavily defended Juyong Pass: instead of laying siege, the Mongol general Jebe lured the defenders out into an ambush and charged in through the opened gates.[111] In 1215, Genghis Khan besieged, captured, and sacked the Jin capital of Yanjing (modern-day Beijing). The Jin dynasty eventually collapsed following the siege of Caizhou in 1234. Western Xia had already fallen in 1227, and the Southern Song resisted the Mongols until 1279.
     
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    Here's a law enforcement group raising funds.

    https://www.fundthewall.com/

    Meanwhile Brian's Petition has about 4 million sigs already. :cheers:
     
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    That site is probably the old Trump foundation in other words you are probably helping to finance a Trump property. Duping you guys like a school of carp aka as suckers.
     
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