Is seems so. The kicker: Iraq's prime minister said Sunday that he has ordered a halt to the U.S. military construction of a barrier separating a Sunni enclave from surrounding Shiite areas in Baghdad after fierce criticism over the project at home.
Now I'm not in favor of building barriers. They are very bad and usually not very pretty. But sometimes (in dire situations) they can help. The Berlin wall, kept a lot of people behind it, and there seems to be fewer "suiciders" in Isreal after the building of their wall.
"I oppose the building of the wall and its construction will stop," al-Maliki said during a joint news conference with the secretary-general of the Arab League. "There are other methods to protect neighborhoods,...
Other methods? Like what? And why haven't you been using them? Oh, the surge. It seems the only thing surging since the infusion of an additional 20,000 US soldiers (make that 30,000 now) are the number of and "spectacularity" of the attacks.
Maybe the "fierce criticism" is coming from car bombers. I'm sure they don't like the wall either.
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