What are the chances that centuries from now people will pose their children for photographs atop The Great Wall of the House of Saud?
Will we eat in Arab restaurants of that name?
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First:
I don’t think a child on a chain-link and razor-wire fence will make a very nice photo:
And that’s IF the child survives!
Second:
They’re building a chain-link and razor-wire fence to keep out ISIS?
At least the Chinese used stones on their Great Wall!
Chain-link and razor-wire fences weren’t even very effective in WWI – and that war was over almost a century ago!
I think tank and bolt-cutter technology have improved since 1918.
The Saudi fence sounds like it’ll be about as effective as a barricade against an invading force, as butter would a protect against an invasion by a hot knife.
Yeesh…
There is actually a history of this strategy for dealing with desert insurgents. The notion was, of course, to regularly patrol the fence by air and road and immediately respond to incursions. Accounts differ as to the effectiveness of the Libyan fence as it was built as the Omar Mukhtar insurrection ended in 1931.
At the same time the British had settled on the low-cost strategy of using RAF air patrol only with special RAF armoured cars to secure the roads in their territory in Iraq.
Have you ever eaten Saudi cuisine (and I use the word loosely)? Trust me, except for the bread, it is not good.
There was a reason the only European who could stand to live in Saudi Arabia was an Englishman.
My experience with Arab cuisine is restricted to Mediterranean dishes (mainly Moroccan and Lebanese).
Other than dates and a coffee with cardamon drink, there doesn’t seem to be an indigenous Saudi cuisine. All the good stuff that we think of as Middle Eastern cuisine originated in areas other than KSA.
The will pose them on the Great Wall of Amexica.
Geographically, it is interesting that these projects tend to go up to partition deserts that have become means of crossing from one state to another.
The Saudi project will slow down the Toyota blitzkrieg enough to allow US air power the opportunity to take aim, but it will not stop the the car bombings that will likely come if and when ISIS starts a real assault on Saudi Arabia. But that is not as imminent as it was last summer. ISIS is having difficult administering what it has and is being force out from parts of northern Syria by the Kurds, who are close to linking a unified front from Irbil in the east to villages west of Kobane in the west.
That is why the idiot GOP wants us to start going after Assad now.
At least the proposed AUMF will slow down the GOP pressure towards idiocy for the time taken to pass it. They are caught between wanting the President to have unlimited powers and not wanting President Obama to have unlimited powers.
More than likely the restaurant name will be Arabic for “The Great Yankee Boondoggle for Recycling Petrodollars into Red State Security Fencing Contractor Grift”.
In reality, fence/walls are built to keep people in more than the keep people/the other out.
I agree the GOP is totally unprepared to put forth an AUMF…it could be July before they try to vote on anything. In 6 months no one can predict what ISIS will look like.
Dear Iraq
We are sorry to hear that you are dissatisfied with the Holy Warriors we sent you. We have a No Return policy.
Yours very truly
The House of Saud