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Extremely short answer.

Bosnia was 800 years of hatred. Tito held Yugoslavia together with an iron fist. He wouldn't allow the traditional ethnic and religious fighting because he was a dictator and if anyone was going to use violence it would be him.

When he died the country broke up and the various groups wanted their old territories back. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, and Macedonia picked up the old grudges and went back to war with each other. It was brutal even by the standards of war.

Milosevic is who you're thinking of.

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I know that's so, but I also know he initiated trouble, and I used to see people roaming the streets and gesturing at bombed houses and they'd say 'she was my neighbor for 15 years!' I mean, lots of people were living together ok, inspite of ancient trouble. Isn't that so?

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It's tasty to sip too. I wish they sold just the brine by the quart. :) There's never enough left over after I eat the pickles for all the things I can use it for.

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No sweat, amigo.

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It took a few years after Tito died to be sure. But there was 800 years or so of grudges he was working with.

Very similar to what happened in Rwanda. Or the sectarian violence in Iraq. Or what's happening in Israel. Or here.

It's much easier to whip up the hate when there's old grudges to build on. Unfortunately once the violence starts, for every person who says "that was my neighbor" there's at least one, if not more, who will enthusiastically murder that neighbor and feel justified doing it.

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Would that be do to the fact that Chic-Fil-A is closed on Sundays, or is there something more nefarious going on?

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Just that they are closed. So the families of workers can pray and be sociable. Not a reprehensible idea in itself, but you have to look at the big picture. In Chik-Fil-A's hometown there was a John Portman hotel with a lobby bar enclosed in a huge birdcage topped by an even huger birdcage. The parrots lived between the two cages. drinkers would feed the birds the fruit from their drinks and the parrots became alcoholics. Georgia had a Sunday-closing law for saloons, and by Monday reopening time the birds would be going crazy with the DTs. I expect something similar is happening with Cruz.

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Here in central PA our gasoline and fuel oil distributors are not serviced by the Colonial Pipeline so no fuel shortage, Guess what, though. We're still seeing price spikes. Said distributors just couldn't let an opportunity for gouging to slip past them.

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Cruz is an INVERTEBRATE liar.

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That's Raphael Cruz to you, pilgrim. He even lies about his name.

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I keep reading inveterate as "invertebrate"

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Didn’t know that. He used his mustache to draw attention away from his gut and apparently it worked on me.

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Well, okay, only because you’re right. But I can still hate Tim Scott on his own merits, right?

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Maybe if CFA's food wasn't so crappy and bland, people wouldn't have to douse it in sauce to make it palatable.Ever think about that creepy Ted?

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How can VP Harris solve the Border Crisis du Jour unless she goes to a border and glares it into submission? Doesn’t she even Politic?

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I hesitate to confess that McD’s new chicken sandwich is not too bad. Next time I will order it without the quart of mayonnaise they put on my first one.

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