Israel, Saudi Arabia, and now downtown Baghdad. If we go back further in history, the Berlin wall, Hadrian's wall and the great wall of China.
We consider those last two quiant, and beautiful remnants of days gone by.
I doubt we think of the others in the same terms. Or will we ever.
In a country where terrorist bombs are a clear and present danger, concrete blast barriers have become a critical landscape feature.
The U.S. military uses the barriers, some up to 10 feet high, to enclose its base camps. Civilian government officials, aid agencies and hotel owners wrap the concrete walls around their buildings like protective blankets. Barriers divide roads and surround parking lots.
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