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To: sagar

Arab nationalism vs Kurdish nationalism vs Persian nationalism vs Turkish nationalism.

I think you've hinted at it but it's probably even more about tribalism than nationalism. So increase the number of factions by a power of ten.

14 posted on 05/30/2016 4:21:07 AM PDT by johniegrad

To: johniegrad

well, the only difference between tribalism and nationalism is scale, right?

21 posted on 05/30/2016 4:57:55 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)

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