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To: TobagoJack who wrote (135104)8/17/2017 11:46:40 PM
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People are beginning to assess the odds of civil war here ...

What I Saw in Charlottesville Could Be Just the Beginning
How a decade of war zone diplomacy taught me the danger of enabling a cycle of hate.

politico.com

By BRENNAN GILMORE

August 14, 2017

What we witnessed Saturday was the terrifying but logical outcome of our escalating, toxic politics of hate. I’ve seen it happen before. Serving in the Central African Republic in 2012, I saw political leaders use hatred and “othering” as instruments to gain political power. As a result, within months, Christians and Muslims, peaceful neighbors for decades, turned against each other. I saw the same thing happen when I served in Burundi, where Hutus and Tutsis made giant strides toward reconciliation after a horrifying history of mass atrocities, only to be manipulated, divided and turned against one another yet again.

America is not Africa. But watching this past election cycle in the U.S., my stomach churned as I saw some of these themes repeating themselves. Looking back now, I can see it was leading toward a cycle of conflict that, once started, is hard to break.
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