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b_b · 3552 days ago · link · · parent · post: Obsessing About Gaza, Ignoring Syria (and Most Everything Else)
Your bolded text may as well be the Balkans in 1935. Substitute religious sects for communists and nationalists (and different religious sects), and we're seeing and age old pattern. Given the multiple civil wars in various regions of the world that are drawing the eye of old powers combined with the generally cynical economic outlook for so many people, I am fearful of war, although I think the prospects are unlikely. But, as we've seen in history, the unthinkable remains so until it happens, and all of a sudden it becomes reality.