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To: Enchante
I shouldn't be at all surprised to see some sort of result involving a de facto division of that screwy nation, with a de jure resolution that Brussels is an open city to both. Something rather like the Anerican crime ''families'' declaring Miami and Las Vegas to be ''open cities'' in the 1950s.

If you consider the point for a bit, the situation is rather like the Israelis and the ''palestinians'' (which term BTW was coined in about 1969 -- there are no such things as ''palestinians'' except in the fevered mind of the Israel-haters).

Of the Flemish-Walloon arguments, whatever the hell they are, I've A) no clue, and B) no interest. That silly nation -- and I flat DARE any FReeper to come on here and say otherwise -- has been a net negative for the entire world since WW II.

There won't be any sort of civil war in Belgium, I think. Both sides in that nation are far too gutless to take up arms. There will doubtless be some sort of bureaucratic war there, likely boring to death in its details.

I'm thinking just now that, the sooner the Belgies can invent the 'Q' bomb (or perhaps in their case, the 'q' bomb), the sooner they can try to extort ''foreign aid'' from the US. (I trust you take my reference...heh heh).

There's a remote possiblity that even the Eurocrats in Brussels might take sides. This would be all to the good -- we'd end up being shed of X number of bureaudorks, and the Eurocrats would have to move the seat of government, which would keep THEIR bureaudorks busy for several years.

23 posted on 01/21/2008 11:36:13 PM PST by SAJ
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To: SAJ

Q: What would a Belgian civil war look like?

A: Both sides’ lawyers and bureaucrats try to bore each other to death.


26 posted on 01/22/2008 4:50:41 AM PST by Enchante (Patriots, 18-0 baby!!!!!!!!!)
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