It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In the 21st century, we can't create security by building walls.
Here in America, we don't give in to our fears. We don't build up walls to keep people out.
The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.
The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.
Ungoverned spaces in the Islamic world will be exploited by people who wish us ill. They will not be contained.
There is nothing unbiblical about building a wall and protecting citizens.