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Originally Posted by paraclete

Right now we are fighting a mouse plague, mice in their millions are overrunning the country

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Didn't Australia have hordes of feral cats not too many years ago? I remember talk of trapping and neutering them, maybe finding homes for many of them. Maybe the mice decided that, since their enemies are fewer, they can party.

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Originally Posted by Wondergirl

Didn't Australia have hordes of feral cats not too many years ago? I remember talk of trapping and neutering them, maybe finding homes for many of them. Maybe the mice decided that, since their enemies are fewer, they can party.

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we still do have hordes of feral cats, but they are afraid of the mice and hide in the cities, those in the outback grow fat. We have had better success neutering house cats. We also had hordes of rabbits and hordes of prickly pear, we don't do things by halves. If the emu wars taught us anything it is nature will win every time

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we faced down Indonesia in Timor, fought beside you in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan and the Kiwi don't dare invade although they have been infiltrating. You are envious of our record with Covid and stopping the hordes of Muslim refugees.

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That's your record of success, facing down the Indonesians at Timor and "stopping the hordes" of refugees by virtue of the fact that you are surrounded on all sides by water?

No we stopped them by sending them back and not allowing them to land and take advantage of our poffter ridden legal system

That's understandable, but you can't compare that relatively minor problem with our southern border. Two completely different situations.

The only difference is the volume of water. If we had not acted, and listened to the liberal dills, we too would have been overrun. Anyway, you stopping your unwillable wars cut off the flow of refugees to this part of the world. The key is denying the people smugglers a product to sell

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The only difference is the volume of water

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No, the difference is the ABSENCE of water. Look at a map of our southern border. It is very clear.

Geography makes a difference. The big challenge crossing the US border is not on the border itself . Most of the migrants have to go through the jungle at the Darien Gap. Many die and are killed there . Still thousands risk it . Why ,because Quid sent out a signal that they are welcome .

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The previous record for crossings of the Darien Gap was in 2016, when more than 25,000 migrants, most from Haiti, Cuba and outside Latin America, crossed into Panama, according to Security Minister Juan Pino."This year has been very crucial," Pino told reporters. "More than 42,000 migrants have already passed through Panama and this is expected to increase."

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Panama registers record number of migrants crossing treacherous Darien Gap | Reuters

Water? Other than the Rio Grande, which often can simply be walked across and, at any rate, only affects the border south of Texas, there is none.

https://thumbs-prod.si-cdn.com/fDXvm...ermap_live.jpg

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Originally Posted by jlisenbe

No, the difference is the ABSENCE of water. Look at a map of our southern border. It is very clear.

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No water you need a WALL!

I would agree with that.

This is why giving up the canal zone was a terrible error .
That is a border that could've been easily defended .

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...Gap-en.svg.png

Darein gap is the only section between Alaska and Chile that does not have an active road through it .

would have been, should have been, perfect hindsight

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Originally Posted by tomder55

This is why giving up the canal zone was a terrible error .
That is a border that could've been easily defended .

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...Gap-en.svg.png

Darein gap is the only section between Alaska and Chile that does not have an active road through it .

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forgive me but doesn't Panama have a dirty great ditch streached across it