IP: Re: - Tony Blair's speech

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 18:26:14 -0400
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> From: Richard Jay Solomon <rsolomon () dsl cis upenn edu>
> Subject: Re: IP: RE: Do read -- Tony Blair's speech
> Cc: ip-sub-1 () majordomo pobox com
>
> One way of looking at this -- and it's not an original idea of mine -- is 
> that this war began in August 1914, in Sarajevo, no less, which led to the 
> dismantling of the Ottoman Empire (and the Russian Czarist, 
> Austro-Hungarian,  German-Prussian, and eventually the British Empire), 
> and which appears to have no end in sight. The 2d Hundred Years War, perhaps?
>
> Depends where you want to draw the line, but there is a continuity in 
> everything. That's why understanding history is important.
>
> Richard