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July 25th, 2006

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So Foul a Sky…

Timely wisdom from Robert Kaplan taken from page 287 of Balkan Ghosts:

I was reminded of a line from Shakespeare’s “Life and Death of King John”: “So foul a sky clears not without a storm.” Conflicting ethnic histories, inflamed by the living death of Communism, had made the Balkan sky so foul that now, sadly, a storm was required to clear it.

Can anyone think of another region that fits that description?

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Dan Nexon
July 26, 2006
4:46 am
Wisdom? More like colorful language expressing an essentially vacuous argument.

/me grins and runs for cover...