It'll be grim

Post #300,851 by mhuber 12/8/08 11:10:45 PM Reply	It'll be grim Now or in 100 years. Or maybe not. We all knew that Central America (except Costa Rica and Beliz) would never achieve peace. And yet, within a few months of the USSR and USA cutting off the supply of arms and money, the shooting stopped. El Salvador was hosting peace conferences for other countries that hadn't worked things out within a couple of years. El Salvador. I guess you had to have been there. Back in the day, it was pretty much what you'd get if Beirut were located inside Mogadishu and then you sent in the NRA divided into two factions each convinced the other supported gun control. So there is a little hope - most of it derived from the global economic crisis. Might be too broke to fight...
Post #300,871 by mvitale 12/9/08 8:41:33 AM Reply	Unfortunately... ...that region has something that Central America doesn't: oil. Major funding source, that... -Mike "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
Post #300,898 by mhuber 12/9/08 5:27:38 PM Reply	Indeed :-( Still, the Central American situation did teach me that fights can end, often without even resolving the conflict they are supposed to be about. That was one of the weird things in C.A. - none of the issues were resolved. Most are still being worked out decades later, sometimes with sporadic violence and even little wars, but mostly by politics and economics and people just moving on to other interests.
Post #300,902 by Andrew Grygus 12/9/08 7:26:16 PM Reply	Another thing they've got in the ME is . . . . . Islam. Murder and mayhem are practically central to the religion - and they hold grudges for centuries.

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