SOME CIVIL WARS NEVER END: LEBANON AND IRAQ SHOW THAT SOME LONG-FOUGHT CIVIL WARS ONLY HAVE CEASE-FIRES - NIALL FERGUSON (LOS ANGELES TIMES, NOVEMBER 27): The reality is that the majority of conflicts in our time have been within civilizations, not between them -- civil wars, not holy wars. And, as the cases of Lebanon and Iraq clearly illustrate, such wars tend to be fought by neighboring ethnic groups.
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