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\u201cGood fences make good neighbors,\u201d declares a man on the other side of his border with Robert Frost, and the poet considers telling him: \u201cBefore I built a wall I\u2019d ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.\u201d \u00a0I\u2019m poised online, and at points of conflagration worldwide, to tell Mr. Frost that by building impenetrable security barriers he would be walling in righteousness and walling out evil.\u00a0 That is my job.\u00a0 I am the world\u2019s greatest builder of walls, and a multitude of tasks I shall eternally have.<\/p>\n

Right now my crews are frenetically working to erect a bulwark of peace on the Israeli-Lebanese border.\u00a0 It will also be necessary to build a wall between Hezbollah, configured against Israel in southern Lebanon, and the rest of the latter country. \u00a0Another unbroken fortification must as well divide Lebanon and Syria.<\/p>\n

As you know I\u2019ve long been working hard on the fence between Israel and the West Bank (or Palestine, if you prefer.)\u00a0 That wall will make everything better as will the ones I\u2019m building around the Gaza Strip \u00a0\u00a0I\u2019d like to build a barrier in the Sinai desert too, but the Israelis won\u2019t hire me, claiming it\u2019s not necessary.\u00a0 Someday it might be, but at that point the price would not be as affordable as it is today.<\/p>\n

In the 1980\u2019s I should have been brought in to forge a fence between bloodthirsty neighbors Iran and Iraq.\u00a0 Hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.\u00a0 And it\u2019s not altogether too late.\u00a0 After finishing my barricade along that lamentable line I could continue the structure all the way around Iran and come back to encircle Iraq as well.<\/p>\n

Currently I\u2019m negotiating with the Russians to build a bastion between themselves and the Afghans as well as one separating them from the Chechins.\u00a0 In that region the Chinese have also asked me to craft something in the style of the Great Wall to exclude the Russians.\u00a0 Meanwhile, many Europeans are urging me to put up an improved Berlin Wall to block the Balkans.\u00a0 And my top engineers are daily struggling to address Europe\u2019s most grievous security need: developing a Mediterranean Sea Wall to prevent Muslims from entering the promised land to the North.\u00a0\u00a0 Regarding sub-Saharan Africa, we are likewise concerned, and have in our conceptual computers plans to build hundreds of thousands of miles of walls between countries, regions, cities, and tribes, and thereby eliminate poverty as well as war.<\/p>\n

My largest in-progress project is the magnificent battlement being created along every inch of the United States-Mexican border. \u00a0The Americans must be protected from what they crave and need, and the Mexicans must be prevented from giving it to them.\u00a0 That\u2019s security.\u00a0 And that, my friends, is also a foolproof means of safeguarding the English language and Anglo-European culture.<\/p>\n

Had I been brought in earlier, I could have saved Los Angeles by sealing off the north-of-Wilshire rich from the poor to the south.\u00a0 And I could have protected the poor from each other by throwing up a barricade between blacks and Latinos.\u00a0 Now they\u2019re often living and quarreling among each other and I\u2019m obliged to build thousands of walls around houses.\u00a0 These small projects are a nuisance but thoroughly profitable.<\/p>\n

I know what my critics have been asking: what about missiles and rockets?\u00a0 Don\u2019t worry.\u00a0 I\u2019m soon to start a roofing firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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