Category ►►► On the Border  February 25, 2008  Bombs and Bombast
Afghan Astonishments , Future of Warfare , Immigration
Immolations , Iran Matters , Iraq Matters , On the Border ,
Pakistan Perplexities Hatched by Dafydd  In a post today, Tom
Bevan of Real Clear Politics gleefully reports that the "virtual
fence" program hasn't worked well so far:  Keith Epstein of
Businessweek reports that the "virtual fence" all the candidates
kept referring to (especially the GOP ones) as the cornerstone
of border security turned out to be a miserable failure....
Doesn't this hurt McCain, given that the virtual fence was one
of the tools he was counting on to help deliver his promise of
"certifying" the security of the border? Will he have commit to
building the real "g**damn fence" now?  No, it shouldn't hurt
McCain... any more than the early failures of the ballistic
missile defense system seriously hurt the BMD program. It just
means we have to keep building the physical fence -- while
continuing to work on the virtual