US Marines build sand walls in latest Iraq tactic

[thedrifter]

US Marines build sand walls in latest Iraq tactic <br />
by Jennie Matthew <br />
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Adapting ideas tracing back from ancient history to modern Israel, US Marines have sealed off flashpoint towns with sand walls...

[yellowwing]

Colonel W. Blake Crowe, the overall US commander for western Al-Anbar, calls them gated communities and likens them to the walls around Biblical Jericho. Tracy compares them to Neolithic barricades built to keep out nomadic invaders.
It reminds me of the Feudalism of the Middle Ages. Perhaps thats what they need now before Iraq can have an enlightened and prosperous Renaissance.