When they throw integration to the wind
Watching America reports that:
The American and Iraqi armies on Tuesday, August 15, started building a wall around Al-Dora, a neighborhood in southern Baghdad. Soldiers have erected prefabricated concrete walls in order to “prevent terrorists from entering,” according to the American army.
Though Al-Dora is a vast, mixed neighborhood, the operation consists in this case of isolating the majority Sunni area to protect them from incursions by Shiite militias. Since Baghdad fell prey to civil war and the transfers of Shiite and Sunni populations began, Al-Dora has been one of the neighborhoods most affected by inter-communal violence.
So when keeping the peace matters, as opposed to committing genocide against European majorities, integration goes out the window.
Posted by John S Bolton on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 08:58 | #
The propaganda for integration was always an unprincipled power-grab.
This ‘peace wall’ resembles the strategic hamlets policy in Vietnam.
At least they seem to almost realize that openness to terrorism and general aggression is not the value that it is otherwise pretended to be quite often.