The Times admits tbe normality of ethno-separatism, at least in some situations

This is in my daily New York Times e-mail for September 13, though the article is only for subscribers:

The Ottoman Swede
By ROGER COHEN
A glance at Iraq is a reminder that distinct peoples forcefully gathered into a dictatorial state will react by trying to get free of each other.

Whoa. If distinct peoples forcefully gathered into a dictatorial state will try to get free of each other, why wouldn’t the same apply to distinct peoples gathered together by an immigration policy at least one of the parties didn’t choose? Indeed, why wouldn’t the same apply to distinct peoples gathered together, period?

Posted by Lawrence Auster at September 13, 2007 08:48 AM | Send