Dana Milbank: Trump’s wall isn’t evil. It’s medieval

Video: With a partial wall near their homes, three neighbors in Penitas, Tex., react to President Trump’s call to expand the barrier on the Mexican border. (Drea Cornejo, Jon Gerberg/The Washington Post)

Washington * President Trump, in his address to the nation, defended the righteousness of his proposed border wall.

“Some have suggested a barrier is immoral,” he said, but it’s really an expression of “love.”

He has a point. The trouble with the wall isn't that it's evil, but that it's medieval.

If the plan is to bet the United States' national security on the siege-warfare technology of the ancient and medieval worlds, which is what a wall does, then our strategy has to be much more Byzantine.

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