Artificial States may Crumble..


	Artificial States may Crumble..

Gul Agha

1-16-2008 5:25 PM

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iraq, kurdistan, pakistan, afghanistan

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1-17-2008 7:46 AM

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Are not all states artificial? Is it naive to think of a future when all States crumble?

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