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	"Tradition?? The only good traditions are food traditions. The rest are repressive."

	"There are two ways to think. The first is to trust to your ancestors, your religious leaders, or your charismatic professors. The second is to question, to challenge, to explore history for meanings, and to analyze issues. This latter is called Critical Thinking, and it is this that is the mission of my web site. "
	Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman

October 2017

Leaving the Union: Pros and Cons

Publication Date : October 28, 2017
Related Categories: culture, Democracy, elections, History, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kurds, Nationalism, Op Ed, Slavery, Tolerance, tribalism, Turkey
Publications: Clay Center Kansas Dispatch, Register Pajaronian

If American foreign policy were based on our own historic experience, we must oppose secession movements. We would not like to see Spain lose part of its country to a province leaving them for independence (Catalonia) or the Kurds leaving Iraq. But does our own experience with the American slave-states trying to leave the union really compare with that of the two current potential breakaway states? And have we forgotten that we seceded from England?

Our southern states declared t more...

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"Tradition?? The only good traditions are food traditions. The rest are repressive."

Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman

Leaving the Union: Pros and Cons