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...Ayodhya incident was just the latest blow to a government shaken by a series of crises. Two weeks ago, the Prime Minister's ruling coalition lost its majority in the parliament after Singh ordered the arrest of L.K. Advani, a Hindu nationalist who had refused to halt a five-week religious march to Ayodhya to support the construction of the Rama temple. Advani's Bharatiya Janata Party responded by withdrawing its backing from the government, a move intended to provoke Singh's downfall in a vote of confidence scheduled for this week...
...arrest of a Hindu revivalist last week has pushed Prime Minister V.P. Singh's government to the verge of collapse and the country into turmoil. At the center of the controversy is L.K. Advani, president of the Bharatiya Janata Party, a Hindu nationalist group whose support is necessary for Singh's shaky coalition government to survive. Advani had embarked on a five-week religious march to Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh, where he vowed to begin building a temple in honor of the Hindu god Rama. But a mosque already sits on the site, and Muslims are vehemently opposed to moving...
Ultimately the Ottoman decline cost Germany and the rest of Europe a great deal more than that. In June 1914 a Serbian nationalist, angry that the Austrian Habsburgs had replaced the Ottomans as the rulers of the Balkans, assassinated the Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo, triggering the unprecedented death and destruction of World...
Western intervention in the collapse of the Soviet Union could also be disastrous, since it could drag the U.S. and its allies into shooting wars between Moscow and rebellious nationalist groups. Partly for that reason, Western countries have chosen to stand aside from Soviet internal upheavals. When Moscow squeezed Lithuania earlier this year, the U.S. and its European partners held back -- and held their breath. In principle they all support self-determination for the Lithuanians and the other non-Russians. But none is prepared to risk the bones of a single NATO infantryman...
...soil, not only to provide a balance vis-a-vis the remaining military power of the Soviet Union but also vis-a-vis the inevitable political and economic weight of Germany. More profoundly, Europeans see the continuation of an American presence as insurance against the possible return of dark nationalist and xenophobic impulses from their past...