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To: nihil who wrote (3430)	4/12/1999 3:04:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

nihil--- The United States is a successful multi- ethnic "empire". All it takes is changing the conception of citizenship from one based on blood to one based on fidelity to the underlying principles of the regime, and to the historic continuity guaranteed by the operation of those principles. To put it a different way, once the nation is conceived of as an "enterprise" rather than a "family", it matters little what the ethnic origin of a citizen might be, only whether or not he is loyal to the nation.

To: nihil who wrote (3430)	4/12/1999 3:19:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

nihil---- By the way, although the Austro- Hungarian Empire was at fault in the run up to World War One, it is generally believed that the revisionist aspirations of the German Reich, seeking to change the balance of power and gain more colonial possessions, had more to do with driving Europe into WWI...

To: nihil who wrote (3430)	4/12/1999 6:45:00 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 17770

<<Much of the world concluded that multiethnic empires could not be held together. The USSR, CS, and Yugoslavia tried to build multiethnic states, but the idea is essentially dead, and the future seems to hold further detailed partitioning and perhaps a gathering together in a high-level European Union, which curiously enough, allows for free migration and employment among the member states and absolute equality of human rights.>> The US has held together quite fine, even composed of the very ethnic groups that in the Old World cant seem to find a reason to stop killing each other. This is a point which I was alluding to earlier. When a nation is a nation of "ethicities, not of law" you get precisely what you see in Kosovo. Despite all our troubles in the US, the old maxim of equality under the law and a government of "law not of men" has produced an amazingly tolerant country.