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GMF celebrates its 40 year history and Founder and Chairman, Dr. Guido Goldman at Gala Dinner May 09, 2013 / Washington, DCGMF held a celebratory gala dinner at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, Wednesday May 8.
In this podcast, GMF Vice President of Programs Ivan Vejvoda discusses last month's historic agreement to normalize relations between Kosovo and Serbia.
Anchor Elaine Reyes speaks with Andrew Small, Transatlantic Fellow of the Asia Program for the German Marshall Fund, about Beijing's potential role in brokering peace between Israel and Palestine
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October 07, 2010 / Jim Kolbe
American Interest
"Good fences make good neighbors”,says the narrator’s neighbor in Robert Frost’s poem “The Mending Wall” of nearly a century ago. What is usually forgotten about the poem is that the narrator, presumably Frost himself, questions why fences between neighbors are necessary at all.
That question was seldom asked by neighbors along the U.S.-Mexico border where I grew up as a child. The border, except for short distances through the major towns, consisted of a threestrand barbed-wire fence—no different, no sturdier,than the fences that divided our own ranch into different cow pastures. At some rural locations,where the roads crossed into Mexico and where traffic could not justify the cost of fulltime Border Patrol personnel to operate a crossing point, the sign on the border gate simply said,“Please close gate after crossing the border.”
For Jim Kolbe's full article, please visit American Interest.
