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The Wars of Tribe and Faith

Alice115 Wrote: Mar 19, 2010 12:52 PM

another Jooo-hating column? He had only one this week! He shot his credibility decades ago when he defended Demjanajuk and stated that victims of the Holocaust could not have been gassed! Even G. Gordon Liddy called him out on that one. It was a great day when the New York Post stopped running his garbage.

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The Wars of Tribe and Faith

When the Soviet Union disintegrated, most Americans likely had never heard of Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan.

Yet the ethnonationalism of these Asian peoples, boiling to the surface after centuries of tsarist and communist repression, helped tear apart one of the great empires of history.

There swiftly followed the collapse of Yugoslavia.

Yet, if one knew nothing of the Habsburg and Ottoman empires or the First and Second Balkan Wars of 1912-1913, one would likely have been surprised by the sudden emergence of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Kosovo on the map of Europe.

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