German scientists have always been among the best in the world. Germany in 1914 was at least as democratic as its World War I rivals. Most important, Stalin, Hitler and Mao seem an awfully high price to pay to have Gloria Steinem among us. Last year just as he was crowing over his destruction of Belgrade, Bill Clinton promulgated something that has now come to be known as the Clinton Doctrine. The rest of the world understood only too well what Clinton was saying.
Any minority can now make trouble and try to provoke government repression.
And the United States will be on hand with its cruise missiles and B-2 bombers. As everyone knows even though they may pretend not to, powers do not meddle in the internal affairs of other powers out of altruism. When the United States supports the irredentist or independence aspirations of a minority it does so for a reason. It wants to weaken the state from which the minority wishes to secede and to strengthen its neighbors. Just about every state in the world, including the United States, possesses minorities that wish to secede or, at least, owe their allegiance elsewhere.