Walls

Anyone who thinks a wall along the southern border of the USA is the answer to anything needs to visit Berlin.  Needs to see remnants of the Berlin Wall.  Needs to consider if history would judge America any differently in the future than we judge the Soviet Union today for building a wall in the early 1960’s that failed to survive a single generation yet continues to be the most vivid symbol most of that and future generations have of repression by a superpower.

Of course, the Berlin Wall was designed to keep people in, not out.  But, in both cases, the people we are talking about were and are people seeking freedom…..people who were and are seeking opportunity…..and most poignantly, people who were and are seeking asylum from tyranny and terror.

The history of America is to stand on the side of those people.  The hope of the world is for America to stay on the side of those people.

JER