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CONFLICT Annexed in 1975 by Indonesia, East Timor fights for independence...
...What about Rwanda, East Timor, NorthernIreland, and Turkey? What about Sierra Leone,where more people have been killed there in themonth of January than have been killed in Kosovoin the last five years?" he said. "We have nobusiness in Kosovo...
Well, why not? For that matter, why not independent Kurdistan? Or Chechnya or East Timor or Quebec? Once you start tinkering with global cartography, everyone wants his say. The unintended consequences of malleable borders scare away all but the most arrogant of statesmen. Yet Secretary of State Madeleine Albright sounded ready to try it last week: "Great nations who understand the importance of sovereignty at various times cede various portions of it in order to achieve some better good for their country...
...LOCATION Distance from Washington is relevant but cuts both ways. Fighting in Europe's backyard helps the Kosovars but hurts the Kurds. Living far from the West deprives oppressed East Timor of active foreign support, but in Sri Lanka the secessionist Tamil Tigers wage their war without interference...
James A. Colbert '02 said he "was unaware ofthe situation in East Timor [and] this speechhelped me get a sense of what was happeningthere...