Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Tribalism Marches On!

Recently, a columnist-friend, Matt Kenney, sent me a 25-year-old newspaper with his chiding that my column had been given better play.

Both had run in The Orange County Register on June 30, 1991.

"Is there no room for new nations in the New World Order?" was my title, and the column began:

"In turning a stone face toward embattled Slovenia and Croatia, President Bush and Secretary of State James Baker have not only put America’s chips on the wrong horse. They have bet on a losing horse.

"Can the U.S. Government seriously believe that a Yugoslavia of such disparate peoples, all of whom wish greater freedom, most of whose republics wish to be free of Belgrade, is a viable nation?"

The State Department had denounced "these unilateral steps by Croatia and Slovenia" to break free: "As Secretary Baker made clear last Friday, we will neither encourage nor reward secession."

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