REH wrote: > This inability to identify with one's neighbors and to feel a group > responsibility is the root, IMHO of the genocide on all counts being > perpetrated in the Balkans at the moment. Today the Balkans, tomorrow > Texas or Nova Scotia? Or the EU (which is cracking before it is even "completed"). The famous conflict researcher Johan Galtung in his article "the balkanisation of Europe" describes the parallels between former Yugoslavia and the EU -- an economic community built "from above" to profit from a common market, with many historical "open bills" inside and outside -- and he concludes: "Time will tell whether the EU of Maastricht (1993) will live as long as Yugoslavia-II (1945-1990)." (and he doesn't even take into account that ex-Yu was more social internally than the EU...) Chris
