Something There Is That Doesn't Love a Wall

Good one:

There was a time in American education when young students were forced to memorize these lines, although that time is unfortunately behind us. Certainly, President Bush was never forced to spend a snowy evening frantically preparing to recite "Mending Wall" from memory in front of his high school class. As a result, he never earned the benefit of such an exercise: America doesn't love a wall. We see them as the symbols of a loss of freedom, great monuments to the death of liberty. Walls confine. Walls divide. In our collective imagination, Americans do not build walls, we tear them down.

One wonders why President Bush did not, as Frost would have him do, ask that simple question before he built his walls in Baghdad: What was I walling in or walling out? If he had asked that simple question, he surely would have seen that the walls in Baghdad will "wall in" far more human spirit in a giant urban prison, than "wall out" potential suicide bombers.