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...Walls Will Tear Us Apart It is sad to know that India's building of a fence along its many miles of border with Bangladesh is the only solution to prevent migrants and terrorists from Bangladesh infiltrating India [Feb. 16]. I can understand that there may be economic disparities and security threats. However, before enclosing Bangladesh with a fence, India's government should place the top priority on helping its neighbor stand on its own feet by boosting Dhaka's economy and shining the way for its poorer, smaller neighbor. After all, India is one of the new superpowers...
...Congratulations to Jyoti Thottam for a very interesting piece on India's fencing of its border with Bangladesh. Indeed, India assisted Bangladesh in its 1971 war of independence with Pakistan, partly out of strategic and historic needs, and has generously accommodated several million economic refugees and migrants from Bangladesh. I would now request the author to also research the economic hardships being caused among Bangladeshi farmers by dams being built in India on rivers flowing into Bangladesh, and see whether this is forcing poorer segments of Bangladesh's rural society to look across the border to India for a living...
...troops on full military alert. This is an over-reaction—the troop exercises are defensive in nature, preparing for the eventualities of an attack by North Korea. The exercises are ridiculous; it’s hard to imagine swarms of American and South Korean troops storming the border in the case of a North Korean attack. Yet can anything really be discounted as ridiculous when North Korea continues to posture as if war will happen...
...same people who were supposed to help get him settled in Europe. Despite having little money and knowing no French, the new arrival managed to communicate his dilemma with passersby, and eventually wound up in a children's refuge run by French social services in Tourcoing, near France's border with Belgium...
...already achieved some clarity about U.S. goals and priorities: "Afghanistan pales in comparison to the problems in Pakistan," said an official familiar with Riedel's thinking. "Our primary goal has to be to shut down the al-Qaeda and Taliban safe havens on the Pakistan side of the border. If that can be accomplished, then the insurgency in Afghanistan becomes manageable...