Re:Seven Hanged: The Book That Started World War One
by DominikR on Thursday March 10, 2016 @01:45PM
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Iraq was invaded 13 years ago and I'm willing to take any bet that today there are more Iraqis than ever that would be willing to assassinate a Western governments leader.
Just have a look at all the crazy extremist organisations in that region. (and what they do)
I'm not defending them but I understand why they still hate us after 13 years.
5 years is nothing in that context. When you are oppressed by a foreign power then people there will fight you indefinitely.
Re:Seven Hanged: The Book That Started World War One
by afterburner on Thursday March 10, 2016 @04:26PM
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Certainly, people can site justifications from thousands of years ago. I was just confused by your use of "just before".
"The country of these assassins was invaded (without provocation) by Austria just before the assassination"
I don't know what "just before" means to you, but I don't think "5 years earlier" when I read that. If you mean the troop maneuvers just before the Archduke's visit, it's odd to say Bosnia was "invaded" by simply moving troops in annexed territory, 5 years after it was annexed.
It's just an unnecessarily misleading sentence. Note that I'm not diminishing Princip's or the Black Hand or Serbian nationalists' motives.