On 13/07/2015 19:02, charles wrote:
In article ,
Nightjar cpb@ insert my surname here.me.uk wrote:
On 13/07/2015 17:48, Adrian wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 17:35:16 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

We could offer to police the Tunisian/Libyan border.

Given we can't even police our own - when surrounded by water - you
think?

460km of line across the desert, with one side of that line having no
effective government at all?
...

Which is probably why Tunisia is going to build a wall along that
border. How effective it will be is another matter.

Both the Romans and the Chinese built walls to keep people out -
successfully, I understand.


Both of which required large garrisons and, if they had a military
purpose (the purpose of Hadrian's wall is disputed - it may have been a
customs control measure or even just a symbol of the power of Rome) it
was to resist attacks by marauding bands, not infiltration by individuals.

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Colin Bignell