On the Arrest of Radovan Karadzic

[frustratedpilot]

I feel a bizarre twinge of synchronicital rightness about not so much the what as the when and the why.

This past week, PBS aired the last episode of Niall Ferguson's documentary series War of the World, about the violence of the past century, its causes, and what it means about human nature. The parts about the ethnic wars in the former

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[mravac_kid]

One reason why it most likely will not happen over there: the US has a functional economy, and is nationally pretty homogenous. Former Yugoslavia was a country in shambles economically, made of several individual and not very well related parts, one of which was trying to dominate the others. In the US, there's little chance of say California trying to extend their rule to Nevada, let alone a state half a continent away.

The troubles in the US, when they come, will be race- and class-based.

[frustratedpilot]

The economy isn't as functional as it looks. The "recovery" seems to only be helping the big multinational corporations and their wealthy masters/shareholders--small businesses are still failing and almost 10% of American workers are still unemployed.

It's true that the States in America can't be directly compared to States in the Former Yugoslavia--there is no such thing as an ethnic Carolinian, for example. And I agree that when trouble breaks, it will be both racial and class/ideological in nature.