[iconoclast]

Is the US homogeneous?

It was when established (are you a recent government school product?).

That is why we conservatives are so concerned about the current immigration policy/philosophy. They seem to us to be a road map to Balkanization.

[syriacus]

It was when established (are you a recent government school product?).

Not at all. I am an ancient private school product who majored in history.

And you? What is your background?

All I know about you is that you don't earn a living reading other peoples' minds.

[syriacus]

That is why we conservatives are so concerned about the current immigration policy/philosophy. They seem to us to be a road map to Balkanization.

Congratulations!! You've just provided the answer to the diversity problem in Iraq!! Put good policies into place.

You know, as a student of American history, that heterogeneity does not, of itself, lead to Balkanization. You yourself said policy can make a difference.

The outcome, (whether Balkanization takes place or not) depends on how the heterogeneity is handled.

BTW, I've got to think a little more about the competing notions that

• On the one hand the Iraqis are, as a group, totally unable to grasp the advantages of self-government
  but on the other hand
• the Iraqis are as a group too heterogenous to form a government.

Maybe you can help...Are the Iraqis too alike in their thinking, or too different in their thinking?

[iconoclast]

ps

I notice you took off on me rather than attempt to defend your own foolishness.

A familiar ploy on these threads.