The Great Wall

Imagine for a moment the great reunification of Germany when the Berlin wall fell on November 9th 1989. Comprehend how symbolic that was and how instrumental that must have been for the country-wide free elections held just two months later. Uncanny how the date may be transcribed into the Arabic - 9/11. Imagine, then, if you will, the unforgivable, brutish, medieval attacks on the eleventh day of September in 2001: back-handedly marginalised by the short-hand, 9/11. Comprehend also what a destabilizing barrier that has presented for the awakened world. Acknowledge the Wall. The modern barrier is impassable, unassailable, insurmountable, omniscient. It defines the religious apology, the political sensitivity, the global foreign policy. Indeed, those once our neighbours across the street, now divided by the great wall, are alien, backward and corrupted. Propaganda and sullied skirmishes embrace both sides of the wall. In this case, the grass most certainly is not greener on the other side.