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Re:In Syria, militias armed by the Pentagon fight those arme... by cm2187 on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @03:20AM (#11380005)
Catholic vs protestants (sunni vs chia is as much religious as ethnic)
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Re:In Syria, militias armed by the Pentagon fight those arme... by JupiterMoon on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @03:27AM (#11380023)
I hope that is is a past problem but it still simmers away in the background in some parts of the world.
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Re:In Syria, militias armed by the Pentagon fight those arme... by jacobush on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @04:52AM (#11380277)
Catholic vs protestant troubles in Northern Ireland has a large ethnic part to it.
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Re:In Syria, militias armed by the Pentagon fight those arme... by eru on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @06:06AM (#11380488)
Yes. But catholic vs protestant in eg Germany has been solved for quite some time now. (The last major war of religion there was from 1618-1638.)
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Re:In Syria, militias armed by the Pentagon fight those arme... by ginko on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @06:44AM (#11380588) 

    The last major war of religion there was from 1618-1638
And it was one of the most destructive in European pre-WW1 history, essentially crippling Germany's economy for centuries. (Also the Thirty Years' War lasted until 1648)
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Re:In Syria, militias armed by the Pentagon fight those arme... by eru on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @10:18PM (#11386522)
The destruction of the town I grew up in during that war was only really surpassed in German history during WWII. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Magdeburg

The interesting 1632 series of books is set just after the sack.

(Thanks for catching the typo.)

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Re:In Syria, militias armed by the Pentagon fight those arme... by jacobush on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @08:28AM (#11429804)
Which did not have such a large ethnic part to it, as the conflict in Ireland has.
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