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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @09:36PM (#32657351)
maybe the difference is a culture you understand vs a culture you don't. Many observers have said for years that middle east statebuildibg efforts were doomed - we left iraq worse off than we found it
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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by jollybean on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @09:24AM (#32661767)
Middle East never had proper states. 100 years ago it was just a bunch of Ottoman administrative divisions. Since then it's been chaos and strong men. Iraq is better off now but maybe not by much.

Arguably Kurds should get their own territory.

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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by guelo on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @10:13PM (#32657563)
Japanese culture was and is very foreign to Americans.
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