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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
It's terrible, and I finally started learning a bit about the whole thing. It's a mess. It may be even worse than our own battle with terrorists, because it's truly internal. It would be like Atticus and his merry band of berkeley liberals insisting that California become its own nation, except rather than using bird-friendly shade-grown coffee beans, they're using children and other civilians, as weapons.
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Marin liberals, please. We do not align ourselves with Easterners.
I suppose the analogy would be apt if California had been conquered in the 1850s by an imperial power that deprived the locality of its autonomy and instituted a policy of mass deportations to Siberia.
I do not support the rebels' methods, and I'm pretty sure I don't support their cause. But American politicians who are public fence straddlers about the outcome of the Civil War, and that means most Southern Republicans today, will find the separatist movements in the former Soviet Union a sticky wicket.
