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19 Feb 2008 Tue 08:26 pm |
Quoting femme_fatal: OMG me and aenigma posted the same thing at the same time |
I am convinced you are sharing a brain!
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19 Feb 2008 Tue 08:30 pm |
Quoting Elisabeth: Quoting femme_fatal: OMG me and aenigma posted the same thing at the same time |
I am convinced you are sharing a brain! |
Spooky!
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19 Feb 2008 Tue 08:40 pm |
Quoting Elisabeth: Quoting femme_fatal: OMG me and aenigma posted the same thing at the same time |
I am convinced you are sharing a brain! |
this is a good post for cats and animals to jump on
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20 Feb 2008 Wed 12:23 am |
I lived in titograd during the early 90's. I also saw what happened by all parties involved. Serbia has been punished enough for their responsibility. Losing Kosovo is going too far. Knowing the partisan serbs and especially the çetnik serbs the way I do, this will never be tolerated long term. The nations that recognize this illegal declaration of independence are only inviting more ethnic violence to the region. Every country of the world has areas of ethnic majority. This is no reason to rewrite borders whenever a minorirt group demands their own country.
Examples of course include areas of UK and USA as well.
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20 Feb 2008 Wed 02:37 am |
Quoting Daydreamer: ...How about Mexicans voting Texas Mexican? That's exactly what will happen in Kosovo. Soon they'll call themselves part of Albania. |
Actually daydreamer, that would not be that far off, it was part of Mexico before it was Texas.
Texas
Then before that it was Spanish Texas....and so it goes...
but on a more serious note. This really looks like a big potential mess.
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20 Feb 2008 Wed 11:33 am |
Thanks alameda, but I do know the history of the USA - it was one of the compulsory courses at my uni I mentioned Texas for exactly that reason. Kosovar Albanians claim that Kosovo used to be their land as in about 30BC Thraco-Illyrian tribes inhabited it. And they claim these tribes to be their ancestors and this is the basis for them to want the land back. Whereas it is specular whether Albanians stem from those tribes, it it perfectly clear who Texas belonged to (even going as far back as to the native tribes). Texas's example was meant to show that even if it's so called 'historical truth' it is no basis for claiming land.
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20 Feb 2008 Wed 11:47 am |
Quoting KeithL: I lived in titograd during the early 90's. I also saw what happened by all parties involved. Serbia has been punished enough for their responsibility. Losing Kosovo is going too far.
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true.
the mass media (including lots of hollywood movies) presented the whole situation as one way fault i.e. serbs were guitly for everything. i myself tend to believe that serbs were evil slavs, until i learnt about mass media manipulations.
Quoting KeithL:
Knowing the partisan serbs and especially the çetnik serbs the way I do, this will never be tolerated long term. The nations that recognize this illegal declaration of independence are only inviting more ethnic violence to the region. Every country of the world has areas of ethnic majority. This is no reason to rewrite borders whenever a minorirt group demands their own country.
Examples of course include areas of UK and USA as well. |
good observations.
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