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To: Elroy who wrote (253936)	10/6/2005 9:52:57 AM
From: SilentZ	Respond to of 1576112

Well, ideally Iraq would be able to split up. However, there are two problems with that which I haven't been able to figure out yet: 1. The different ethnic areas don't have an equal split of resources 2. A split would drag a bunch of Iraq's neighbors, like Turkey, into the fray. -Z

To: Elroy who wrote (253936)	10/6/2005 10:06:48 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576112

"Yogoslavia was an authoritarian dictatorship since WW2 until about 1990." Sort of. Tito ruled with an iron hand until his death in 1980. Yugoslavia started to fragment in post-Tito era as the various regions started to assert powers they had under the constitution, until Milosevich came to power. He started to assert central control and that lead to the wars in the 1990s. So Yugoslavia was on the way to peacefully splitting into its various countries until a strongman arose who tried to stop it. If Milosevich had been stopped earlier, that region might have been more peaceful, albeit somewhat wary of its neighbors. And that only because there had been some history in that region. All the wars did was add to that history for a new generation. So the best case model would have been to allow nature to runs its course in Yugoslavia after Tito died. If there had been some sort of way to prevent a Milosovich to gain power in Yugoslavia, things probably would have worked out better. Although how to do that and not have outside intervention is a tough problem.