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Old 07-05-15, 06:17 AM   #5
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I do not shed a tear either.

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Originally Posted by Torplexed View Post
[...] ... Nobody cared when Arab tribes blood-feuded over honor or water wells in some desert wasteland. But then came oil and nationalism and Arabs living by the millions in nation states and as those states start to dissolve you end up with hundreds of thousands of people on the hoof for some place where there is still a shred of normalcy.[...]

"But then came oil and nationalism".
You mean colonies, greed for oil and puppet regimes, or, to be precise, the western countries came.
But you would not say "we" have anything to do with it, when we think of countries like Persia with the Anglo-Persian oil company etc.
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