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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of Democracy
Date: 20 Oct 2024 01:52:00 GMT
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On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 21:52:20 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On 19 Oct 2024 18:59:25 GMT, rbowman wrote:
> 
>> Yugoslavia was another one of those ill-advised creations after WWI.
>> "We'll draw a line around these people that hate each other and call it
>> a country."
> 
> In your case you fought a civil war that succeeded in forcing them back
> together again. In Yugoslavia, the war went another way.
> 
> What common principle can you draw from both these cases?

Might makes right. While the Brits made a half-hearted attempt to support 
the South the US Civil War didn't have Bill Clinton bombing one side.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/08/20/americas-forgotten-bullshit-
bombing-of-serbia/

To Clinton's credit he did put the Yugo out of its misery. Only communists 
could try to create a Fiat 127 knockoff and fail so spectacularly.