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To: Jim DuBois who wrote (122681)1/2/2004 3:28:10 PM
From: GST  Respond to of 281500
 
<Amy Chua is a professor at Yale Law School and author of "World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability" (Anchor Books).> This sounds like a book well-worth reading for all those interested in what the US is doing in Iraq.



To: Jim DuBois who wrote (122681)1/2/2004 3:30:19 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Ethnic Division in Iraq
By Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld
Sunday, January 4, 2004; Page B02


Jim,

Thanks for posting this Washington Post op ed piece from Chua and Rubenfeld. It's increasingly and lamentably rare to read pieces about Iraq that are non ideological. And helpful. This one is right on target and very helpful.

This is a classic illustration of her argument in her book. Not bad, by the way.



To: Jim DuBois who wrote (122681)1/3/2004 3:07:51 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net  Respond to of 281500
 
>>Democratic elections in the former Yugoslavia produced landslide victories for the hate-mongering Franjo Tudjman in Croatia and the genocidal Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia<< Confirming a tragic case of arrested development:

23:26 BELGRADE , Dec 28 (Tanjug) - According to the data that has arrived so far in the Serbian election commission, the Serbian Radical Party has won 26.06 pct of votes at the parliamentary elections held on Sunday...