WHAT’S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 29 Feb 08, Washington, DC
1. FENCES: SOMETHING THERE IS THAT DOESN’T LOVE A WALL.
Technology makes us arrogant. A 28-mile pilot project for a high-
tech "virtual fence" south of Tucson, which cost $100M, is now
acknowledged to be a failure. The history of the world is a story of
fences that failed: the Great Wall of China, the Red Sea, the Berlin Wall,
Robert McNamara’s electronic wall dividing Vietnam, followed by the horror
of Agent Orange. Securing the 2,000 mile border was expected to cost