An Unpaid Political Commentary

This doesn't have a darned thing to do with Belgium, but having lived within a stone's throw of the Berlin Wall for over 6 years, I humbly submit the following for your consideration:
About the only people I could ever envision lauding the border policies of the former East Germany would be 1) members of now-defunct eastern European politburos, or 2) anyone else who has never gotten around to reading a single book on 20th century European history. Enter Joe Miller, Tea Party Senate candidate from Alaska (the state that has already given us the Republican's version of Albert Einstein...).
Candidate Miller was certainly never a politburo member and, as a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, he most hopefully cracked open the cover of at least one history book during his four years of study. But I might be wrong.
He draws comparisons between the current border problems in the southwestern U.S. and those same nagging "problems" which tormented the East German regime 50 years ago. He states that East Germany was "very able to reduce the flow. If East Germany could, we could." The tiny, insignificant distinction between the two circumstances seems missing in his argument: foreigners hopping across our borders in search of a better life; in East Germany, its citizen-prisoners trying to escape tyranny to reach a better life, often killed in their attempts.
Say what you will about the policies of Democrats, but in this wild year of politics I have yet to hear one discuss the merits of a "2nd Amendment solution" to politicians who simply espouse views different from your own, or praise one of the most heinous dictatorships in post-World War II Europe for its effective border policing.
Assuming that Mr. Miller has in fact read a history book at some point in his adult life, it must have been published by the same company that provided Sarah Palin her book on world geography.