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...when we have nothing in common? This was one of the questions I pondered before going to Spain, and one which I still think about now. But my time in Spain has given me new hope that Americans can maintain a common ground on which to rest their nationhood. Ironically, going to a foreign country has taught me a great deal about...
...justify its existence. I do hate to break the news, but Israel is not perfect, it never has been and it never will be. But unless I am gravely mistaken, good manners and perfect unity were not mentioned by Woodrow Wilson in 1918 as a prerequisite for independent nationhood. I have yet to be informed of a universal association of national standardization which ensures that imperfect countries are closed down and sold to the highest bidder...
...being a tidier place without Soviet- American antagonism to kick it around. If the Kremlin no longer helps to orchestrate conflicts in remote countries, it presides over a veritable Mongolian hot pot of disorder at home. At the same time, impoverished lands like Somalia, with a scant sense of nationhood, remain just as prey to pandemonium as they have been since the mini-Lenins who held them together acquired a fatal bad name. Such primitive sorts of emergencies call on the world's conscience with electronic immediacy. The trouble is, too often they get primitive answers...
...democracy movement. International oil customers, hesitant to offend an influential supplier or harm their own recession-plagued economies, are not likely to embargo Nigerian crude. More fundamentally, democracy leaders have been unable to overcome the ethnic rivalries that have stood in the way of a true sense of Nigerian nationhood since its creation. Support is strong in the Yoruba-dominated southwest and almost nil in other parts of the country...
...Croatia could be regarded as international, since these areas had declared independence; in Somalia there was no government left to tell anyone to stay out. Kosovo, however, has been part of Serbia for centuries; for all its current Albanian majority, Serbs regard it as the cradle of their nationhood. To Bush and others, that consideration is overridden by the danger that Serbian aggression in Kosovo could ignite a general war drawing in Albania, Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria and even Turkey...