The walls are
1) temporary
2) necessary
3) as our host pointed out
they serve as force multipliers
One simply can not have every single
street checkpointed …
That said improvements can be made as follows
1)Parts of the wall can be large
earth filled concrete planters
with Date palms (barbed wire
between the trunks
of the trees)
This would provide some beautification
2) Maliki should annonce all walls
to be built as planned
BUT also announce that as more
Iraqi police and Army units get trained he will open up more and more streets for exit/entry
So a neighborhood which is walled and has three gates to enter
Will perhaps add 2 gates per month
as Iraqi forces expand perhaps
up to say 10 gates.
3) Once completed secure minibus
services that connect gated communities with each other
and Hospitals etc can also
be formed … the idea as another person wrote is to build with the future in mind … these al-queda
types WILL NEVER LEAVE IRAQ IN PEACE
4) once a gated community area has been swept several times then more reconstruction
projects can be done in those areas
Baghdad and other cities must start
to look forward and build with the future in mind and build with security in mind
