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City of Walls

By Jonathan Simor

Michael Gordon's vivid reporting from Baghdad, in this mornings NYTimes raised again for me the question of how our security strategies in Iraq relate to our domestic security strategies. Gordon's frighteningly close descriptions of of American and Iraqi soldiers battling insurgents over the construction of a series of security walls through portions Sadr City, brought to mind the well established pattern of gated communities as part of middle and upper class security in the United States and globally. The walls in Baghdad are aimed to create secured zones around the core area of Shi-ite popular resistance to American and Iraqi government forces. But as Gordon notes, the wall seems to become as much a site of violence as a tool for repressing it...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on May 15, 2008 (boomark / email).