New Solution For Defending Baghdad: Dig Trenches Around City

[bigtree]

dig deeper holes

Trenches plan to secure Baghdad

Iraq's interior ministry has announced plans to increase security in Baghdad by digging trenches around the city, and surrounding it with checkpoints.

The plan was unveiled amid continuing violence in the capital. At least 49 bodies have been recovered from the city's streets in the past 24 hours.

A spokesman said the security plan was designed to prevent insurgents from getting into and out of Baghdad.

But correspondents say it could take months to dig trenches round the city.

The Iraqi capital has a circumference of around 80km (50 miles).


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5349398.stm


they can fill the trenches with alligators and screaming eels . . . build a fort with towers to pour boiling oil down on the insurgents . . . :eyes:

[rodeodance]

1. umm.. a take off of castle moots.

[babylonsister]

2. Dig trenches, build fences, do anything but address the real

issues sparking the behavior.

[bigtree]

3. I swear

what the hell? Why not a big fence, make Bgghdad a gated community, complete with the new palace they're building for our ambassador?

This is what losing looks like right before total collapse

[babylonsister]

5. They (we) got nothin'. This is their hail Mary act of desperation.

And I don't see it working at all.

[bigtree]

7. digging holes

they're good at that . . .

[MrModerate]

4. In a war noted for its stunning stupidity on all sides . . .

This one takes the cake. Thousands of insurgents LIVE in Baghdad, and to the degree that they need to coordinate with people outside the city, the phones now work reasonably well (it's tough to recharge your cell with power on only a few hours a day, but it can be done).

When the stage of the civil war starts that involves the movement of large bodies of troops, the ditches will do nothing to impede them, because the guards at the crossings will be swept away or compromised.

Sheesh!

[bigtree]

9. Bush today:

"Building berm around the city to make it harder to bring explosive devices in."

[MrModerate]

15. I'm one of those who've said for a long time . . .

That Bush isn't actually stupid, just wicked and deranged.

I take it back.

[catmandu57]

12. I suspect that they have more than enough

explosives, bullets, whatever they need right there at hand, and what's to say that those manning the checkpoints are not going to wink and nod as well, dumb, dumb fucking idea.

[jayfish]

6. Around The City?

Why stop there? Why not trench the entire city and then fill it with water? The venice of the Middle-East... :eyes:

Jay

[malaise]

8. Bob Marley was correct

If you dig one ditch you'd better dig two
One for your brother and one for you...'

[long_green]

10. Who gets to dig the trench? Who gets to install the checkpoints?

This is not only a stupid idea, it is makework for the war profiteers.

[misternormal]

11. Another Halliburton no-bid contract Me thinks.... n/t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

13. Dubya mentioned a berm today.

"We're building a berm around baghdad!"

Way to keep the Mongols out, George.

[Generic Other]

14. They are digging plenty of trenches everyday already

And burying folks in 'em.