Why don't we build a wall that spans our border with Mexico?

Okay i'm going to pretend you're serious. Firstly, you're a bit in the dark as far as current events go... no worries as you're forgiven. The United States did ponder building a fence along the Canada/USA border... several times.

Here's the latest incarnation: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/20... Why didn't the American's build it, one can only guess at the reasons. Perhaps because unlike the relatively healthy Canadian economy (that your logic would have people believing everyone wants to leave) the USA economy isn't doing so good... so perhaps finances played a part in that the money could be better spent. Perhaps unlike all the rhetoric everyone got to listen to after 9/11 about how the terrorists came from Canada and that we let them in, facts are even most illegals use the borders... like the 9/11 terrorists waved into the USA with a smile by an American border guard.

Perhaps building a fence though forests and wilderness just seemed, I dunno... stupid - considering the only thing you'd really be stopping is animal migration. Perhaps a fence again seemed, I dunno... stupid considering all the tunnels Mexicans are digging underneath all the fences and security you got going on down there. I'll raise that senseless banner once again by suggesting unlike what Mexicans are doing, I don't see a big rush of Canadians all streaming down south rushing the American border so we can take advantage of no health care and a cheaper dollar.

Perhaps deep down the America public don't want to be fenced in like Festung Amerika keeping in mind how well isolationism served the USA the last few times they tried it. Perhaps it's the fact the USA is not self sufficent in such basics as fresh water, electricity, oil... so building a fence between you and the neighbor who supplies you with all you need seems... self defeating. Canada of course being the USA's leading oil supplier.

Perhaps this sums up the epic fail of this 'fence' mindset better than I can: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV_041oYD...

Yeah, we shouldn't imitate other rich, free, capitalist nations like Switzerland and Australia for health care, but we shoud imitate the former German Democratic Republic and its oppressive policies. Is conservatism having a race to the bottom these days?

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.