The Great Wall of Adhamiya

[Alcibiades]

Pardon me if this is a duplicate, but it appears that the commanders on the ground in Iraq have found it's prudent to build a wall dividing Baghdad.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-wall20apr20,0,5085656.story?page=2&coll=la-home-headlines

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BAGHDAD — A U.S. military brigade is constructing a 3-mile-long concrete wall to cut off one of the capital's most restive Sunni Arab districts from the Shiite Muslim neighborhoods that surround it, raising concern about the further Balkanization of Iraq's most populous and violent city.

U.S. commanders in northern Baghdad said the 12-foot-high barrier would make it more difficult for suicide bombers to strike and for death squads and militia fighters from sectarian factions to attack one another and then slip back to their home turf. Construction began April 10 and is expected to be completed by the end of the month....

Shiite and Sunni Arabs living in the shadow of the barrier were united in their contempt for the imposing new structure.

"Are they trying to divide us into different sectarian cantons?" said a Sunni drugstore owner in Adhamiya, who would identify himself only as Abu Ahmed, 44. "This will deepen the sectarian strife and only serve to abort efforts aimed at reconciliation."

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My question is, if the literal partition of Baghdad is the only way to keep the peace in the city, why isn't the Bush administration discussing partition of Iraq? Our most loyal allies (of convenience, to be sure), the Kurds, want it most sincerely. Why isn't it being seriously considered as an alternative to unending US involvement in a civil war?

[HereSince1628]

1. Ghetto confinement prior to a final solution...

I hope the idiots are contemplating possible outcomes. Humanity was presented with some tough lessons about 60 years ago in Warsaw. There is no reason to do that drill again.