The Fence: That ever encroaching cross between the Berlin Wall and Christo's Gates (Artist: Michael Chertoff, secretary of homeland security, with funding provided by the United States of America).
Dan Barry reporting on the Fence that the U.S. is erecting in an effort to deter illegal immigration from Mexico in this morning's New York Times.
The piece, A Natural Treasure That May End Up Without a Country, reports on how the Fence may well cut off the 550 acre Sabal Palm Aububon Center on U.S. soil in Brownsville, Texas from U.S. visitors.
Nevermind the fact that Michael Chertoff has never, apparently, heard of the Maginot Line.
5 comments:
still haven't figured out how the Rubublicans got from Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall to the Mexican wall in just 25 years.
the term "Maginot Line" is now sometimes used as a metaphor for something that is confidently relied upon, but ends up being ineffective
we built the Line just because we were in desperate need of a metaphor for that!
well put, jim. (makes me so damn mad.)
& em: so thoughtful of the French to keep us all supplied with essential metaphors -- and at such great national expense. 'preciate all the hard work and trouble.
& p.s. many thanks for the wine & cheese too. & for carla bruni. :D
carla bruni ...***sigh*** i think i prefer to be reminded of the Maginot Line!
"Liberté, Venalité, et Stupidité. The great clarté of French military thinking... Three schools of thought. One; I hit you in the nose. Two; I hide behind this thing which does not cover my left flank. Three; I hide my head in the sand like an ostrich, confident of the greatness of France as a military power and then take off."
Hemingway, Across the river and into the trees
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