Title
Are Our Borders Better Than Your Borders?
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2015
Abstract
"Future historians might well brand 2015 the 'year of borders.' Presidential hopeful Donald Trump used the word “border” a full seven times in his seven and a half-minute campaign announcement in mid-June, and his proposal to build a wall on our southern border has been a major theme in the GOP primary season thus far. Before he dropped out of the race, Republican Gov. Scott Walker said that another wall — this one on the northern U.S. border with Canada — might also be needed. Yet while we see our own borders as inviolable, we seemingly have few issues deploying American power across others’ sovereign lines as soon as we deem any threat exists to our security or economic interests."
Recommended Citation
Daddis, Gregory A., “Are Our Borders Better Than Your Borders?” War on the Rocks (October 2015), http://warontherocks.com/2015/10/are-our-borders-better-than-your-borders.
Copyright
War on the Rocks
Comments
This article was originally published in War on the Rocks in October 2015.