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Cordon just means an imaginary area patrolled by guards. Anyone can declare a cordon without building anything or deploying anybody.
by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Cordon just means an imaginary area patrolled by guards. Anyone can declare a cordon without building anything or deploying anybody.
- SilasX 10y agoThe Guatemala-Mexico security cordon has no structures or deployed patrols?
- honkhonkpants 10y agoHere's a Federal checkpoint that's made out of grass and sticks. https://www.google.com/maps/@16.0751514,-91.0688863,3a,75y,198.46h,73.2t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sXLX_toMgsrvkB6GyYeBpng!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 https://www.google.com/maps/@16.0751514,-91.0688863,3a,75y,1... How much of a wall were you hoping for? Most of their border consists of nothing but a graded road through the forest, much like the American border with Canada.
- SilasX 10y agoI don't know where I hoped for any kind of wall. I was asking for an internally consistent criticism of Trump's proposal so as to understand the logic behind it -- ideally, a worldmodel under which Trump's proposal is atrocious, but which doesn't generalize to criticism of all expenditure on border protection. Can you help me with that point? I'm not interested in getting into the woods of what is or isn't "a wall" or what people can or can't call a "cordon".
- honkhonkpants 10y agoI don't give a hoot about any of that stuff you want. I'm responding to some dupe who has fallen for an Internet hoax claiming to show a gigantic wall on the Mexico/Guatemala border. There is no such wall.
- googlryas 10y agoI already admitted I was mistaken about the wall, and there is just a military cordon there instead. As I asked in another post, does that negate my entire post?
- honkhonkpants 10y agoYes, because you have already outed yourself as the kind of person who will fall for anything.