Barbed wire

Two views on barbed wire, a hundred years apart.

"Watching, we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire, 
Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles. 
Northward, incessantly, the flickering gunnery rumbles, 
Far off, like a dull rumour of some other war. 
       What are we doing here?" 

From "Exposure". Wilfred Owen, slaughtered 100 years ago today at the age of 25.

"We have our military on the border. And I noticed all that beautiful barbed wire going up today, barbed wire used properly can be a beautiful sight,”

President Donald Trump. 2018