All In All, You're Just Another Brick In The Wall...

Too obvious for the Iraq Wall Lead in?

Anyway, looks like the US Military is going to build a wall in Baghdad to try to quell the sectarian violence.

Believe it or not, the pro's and con's of such a wall are not the topic of this post. Seriously, you can believe it, or not believe it, it makes not one speck of difference to me. Try it, you'll see...see, I don't care.

What does concern me about the wall is that even if you think that the wall is the single best idea going in Iraq right now, you have to wonder why the US Military is building it. Strategically, wall's are always controversial, which is a great reason to push this to the Iraqi Military. It removes most of the big controversy and "imperial" nature, and makes them responsible for it. Their city, their wall. Let them answer to the citizens, let the build it, let them take responsibility for it. Let them deal with the controversy, we have enough of an image problem as it is. This only exasperates our issues with the Iraqi people. We should get out of the way, or at least the spotlight on this particular issue.

Practically, surely this is something the Iraqi Military is capable of doing successfully. If the Iraqi Military cannot even be trusted to build a wall, what does that really say for how far out they are in terms of actually keeping the peace and defending the country? Couldn't this be viewed as some sort of benchmark, or even a learning experience for them? Not only that, but surely US forces can be put to better use that building a wall? Isn't that the point of the surge, to get more troops out in the field looking for bad guys and protecting each other?

Again, wall or no wall, that's not the point. The bigger question is why is the US building it and not Iraq?