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Re:Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, s... by narrator on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @08:36PM (#21142388)
After World War I the British redrew the map of the middle east pretty arbitrarily after defeating the Ottoman Turks founding modern Iraq. It wasn't really guaranteed in the first place to include people who like each other.
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Re:Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, s... by bsder on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @08:52PM (#21142495)
It was far from arbitrary.

The British drew the map specifically so that they could use the local tensions to divide and conquer.

We're still suffering because of that.

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Re:Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, s... by didibus on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @10:26PM (#21142976)
I'm totally in agreement with you, and yet I'm still saddened that people fall prey to this trick which they have in their power to fix, by learning to forgive and live together in harmony and piece. The tragedy is how hard it is for people to come together and collaborate in good faith. And when that truth is exploited it's even more sad.
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