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Now come on, you're not one of those on here who doesn't believe that we can learn from history. The people of India preferred to be separated too - India was split (by Britain) into three parts - West Pakistan, India and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). The result? Massive violence and slaughter occurred on both sides of the border, there was a complete breakdown of law and order, thousands, perhaps even a million, died in riots, massacre, or just from the hardships of their flight to safety and almost sixty years later, after four Indo-Pakistani wars and a nuclear arms race between the two countries there is still continuing strife.

A year after the partition of India Britain left Palestine leaving the division of that country into Israel and Palestine to the UN. The boundaries were mapped out though the UN resolutions have remained unenforced (thanks mainly to eleven US Presidents so far). Again the result has been several Arab- Israeli wars and the conflict continues.

I have mentioned other examples in a previous posting. How many times does a policy have to fail before it is considered flawed?

<blockquote data-quote="BrianH" data-source="post: 2089370" data-attributes="member: 64960">Now come on, you&#039;re not one of those on here who doesn&#039;t believe that we can learn from history.&nbsp; The people of India preferred to be separated too - India was split (by Britain) into three parts - West Pakistan, India and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).&nbsp; The result?&nbsp; Massive violence and slaughter occurred on both sides of the border,&nbsp; there was a complete breakdown of law and order, thousands, perhaps even a million, died in riots, massacre, or just from the hardships of their flight to safety and almost sixty years later, after four Indo-Pakistani wars and a nuclear arms race between the two countries there is still continuing strife.&nbsp; A year after the partition of India Britain left Palestine leaving the division of that country into Israel and Palestine to the UN.&nbsp; The boundaries were mapped out though the UN resolutions have remained unenforced (thanks mainly to eleven US Presidents so far).&nbsp; Again the result has been several Arab- Israeli wars and the conflict continues.I have mentioned other examples in a previous posting.&nbsp; How many times does a policy have to fail before it is considered flawed?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BrianH, post: 2089370, member: 64960"] Now come on, you're not one of those on here who doesn't believe that we can learn from history. The people of India preferred to be separated too - India was split (by Britain) into three parts - West Pakistan, India and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). The result? Massive violence and slaughter occurred on both sides of the border, there was a complete breakdown of law and order, thousands, perhaps even a million, died in riots, massacre, or just from the hardships of their flight to safety and almost sixty years later, after four Indo-Pakistani wars and a nuclear arms race between the two countries there is still continuing strife. A year after the partition of India Britain left Palestine leaving the division of that country into Israel and Palestine to the UN. The boundaries were mapped out though the UN resolutions have remained unenforced (thanks mainly to eleven US Presidents so far). Again the result has been several Arab- Israeli wars and the conflict continues. I have mentioned other examples in a previous posting. How many times does a policy have to fail before it is considered flawed? [/QUOTE]

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