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According to posters in the war room, this wall is useless and nothing illegals can't overcome.
Yemen rebels attack Saudi border, dozens dead
Saudi Arabia said its forces killed dozens of Iran-backed rebels from Yemen who launched their first major attack on the kingdom since Saudi-led air strikes began last month.
Three Saudi soldiers also died in the battle after the rebels targeted their observation posts, the defence ministry said, as its army repelled the assault.
There have been deadly skirmishes before but this is the first time the Saudi military has reported a full-scale Huthi attack on its borders.
http://news.yahoo.com/gulf-ministers-meet-yemen-conflict-rages-135648290.html
Saudi Arabia's new Yemen strategy: get behind a fence
Saudi Arabia is increasingly taking a security-first approach to neighboring Yemen, where Houthi rebels have all but seized power, wanting nothing better than to finish a new border fence and then slam shut the gates.
Riyadh convened a meeting of Gulf countries on Wednesday to threaten unspecified measures to "protect their interests" in Yemen where the Shi'ite Muslim rebels, allies of its enemy Iran, are holding the president a virtual prisoner.
But unlike in the past, the kingdom wields little influence across its border and has few established ties to Yemen's new powerbrokers. It has already suspended aid payments, its most potent leverage in the country.
That will compel the Houthis, and by extension Iran, to foot the substantial bill for keeping Yemen afloat if they want to govern the poorest Arab country without Riyadh's support.
Saudi analysts say the priority is sealing the mountainous Yemeni border - where Houthis killed around 200 Saudi soldiers in a brief war four years ago - with a fence modeled on its expensive frontier defenses with Iraq.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0KV1VH20150122
I was thinking the same thing. When it comes to our southern border, we are told a physical barrier wouldn't stop anyone. Meanwhile Israel has a high tech fence that seems to be working pretty well
I was thinking the same thing. When it comes to our southern border, we are told a physical barrier wouldn't stop anyone. Meanwhile Israel has a high tech fence that seems to be working pretty well
Israel is a tiny country whose population lives close to said border, the majority of the US-Mexico border is desert and scarcely populated, the costs to make and man the wall would be astronomical.
Of course it works. The idiots here are bringing up the Maginot line like its proof static defenses don't work, but the Maginot line did its job perfectly the Germans never even dreamed of trying to push through the french border they knew that would of been the end of the third Reich right there. The french were even prepared for a German invasion into the low countries and responded well to the initial German moves. The problem arose in that the Germans knew what the french reaction to their initial advances in Belgium and the Netherlands would be. They were able to take advantage of French over commitment and flanked the majority of the french army by going through the Ardennes, terrain the allied high command thought was impassable and thus undefended, and cutting off the bulk of the allied combat units. The Allies made the same mistake in 1944 even though we knew the Germans could now move through the area we didn't think they had the capability to go on the offensive and left the area lightly defended, and almost had the same thing happen again.
If the Allied armies let the low countries fall and never overextended themselves the war would have been over in a year, but they were sure the Germans were going to try to go through Belgium again and thought they could stuff the German army right at the start.
Did they get Mexicans to pay for it?
The House of Saud..... your days are numbered.
I absolutely couldn't agree more.What else can they do, the corrupt morons created Jihadistan on their Northern border and now they've realized that they can't control the horrific monster they unleashed. They are just awakening to the reality that all these Sunni maniacs in the desert to the North are never going away.
Payback is a bitch. Btw, Turkey, you are going to be enjoying the same situation because of your sins.