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To: Carry_Okie
The moment one creates contiguous countries based upon ethnicity, instead of an array of civil wars you'll have wars between nations. That's an improvement, right?

Has the artificial construct of borders imposed on the locals in the Middle East and Africa worked out well? I don't have the answers.

21 posted on 01/12/2014 6:11:39 PM PST by Pan_Yan (Who told you that you were naked? Genesis 3:11)
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To: Pan_Yan
Has the artificial construct of borders imposed on the locals in the Middle East and Africa worked out well? I don't have the answers.

The respect in which they've done the most damage has been with regard to hunter-gatherer and pastoral nomads. A substantial degree of the desertification of the Sahel has been due to forced sedentism of nomadic tribes.

24 posted on 01/12/2014 7:11:30 PM PST by Carry_Okie (0-Care IS Medicaid; they'll pull a sheet over your head and take your home to pay for it.)
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