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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (15043)	12/29/2001 5:43:46 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 281500

I think it was puerto ricans who tried that?? Ilmarinen Anyway, great that those 6 districts are not as important anymore, NI is busy implementing multy-party and proportional representation systems. Shame on a civil war in the frontyard for such a long time for those who claim to be civilized.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (15043)	12/29/2001 5:57:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

I think you are confused and you mean Northern Ireland. Actually, I think you're confused and mean Ireland proper. While I find Irish American support detrimental to achieving peace there, I don't equate it as being the same. Pakistan is a neighbor to India, and is attempting to gain control over that region. Were Pakistan only attempting to assist the Kashmiris to obtain independence for themselves, and had no territorial designs on the region, it would be a different situation. But Pakistan obviously has such territorial designs. In fact, it has always claimed that Kashmir belongs to "it", whatever "it" was before the sub-continent was divided along arbitrary lines. Similiar to the mid-east, possession is 9/10th of the law with regard to sovereign claims on the sub-continent. Nation states have been arbitrarily drawn from former colonial empires. Thus, any nation there which attempts to assert an historical claim over a region is just spreading propaganda aimed at justifying their claims (which every nation does). And that's why I believe there'll be conflict there until both sides finally decide that fighting each other is no longer worth the economic, political price. But most especially the price in human blood. Hawk