If It Was Good Enough for Khruschev

Smells like success: "Trying to stem the infiltration of militia fighters, American forces have begun to build a massive concrete wall that will partition Sadr City, the densely populated Shiite neighborhood in the Iraqi capital." Whatever happened to destroying the village in order to save it?

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