In twenty years time America has gone from demanding the wall in Germany be torn down to building our own wall in Iraq. Who is America now?

The US military is building a three-mile concrete wall in the centre of Baghdad along the most murderous faultline between Sunni and Shia Muslims.

The wall, which recognises the reality of the hardening sectarian divide in Baghdad, is a central part of George Bush's final push to pacify the capital. Work began on April 10 under cover of darkness and is due for completion by the end of the month.

The highly symbolic wall has evoked comparisons to the barriers dividing Protestants and Catholics in Belfast and Israelis and Palestinians along the length of the West Bank.

I think that this will symbolize Harry Reid's assertion that this war is lost better then anything that the Democrats could ever do.

I was not that much of a Ronald Reagan fan but I have to wonder if he is not spinning like crazy in his grave at this new "strategy".

We invade countries, depose leaders, destroy their infrastructure, kill innocent civilians, and then build a wall to hide our screw ups, and this is America?