I think view ideas have done as much harm as the idea that one ethnicity = one territory = one state. That's why I'm a fan of multinational federations.
--- On Mon, 1/5/09, B. <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The emergence of the modern nation-state in Europe (and its
> imposition elsewhere, videlicet 1890 African conference) has
> these kinds of conflicts inextricably bound up within it.
> War is the health of the state, as some loony, fringe,
> left-wing guy said once....
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> -B.
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