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<blockquote data-quote="Prestwick" data-source="post: 232037"><p>Too many assumptions.</p><p></p><p>The comparison is still simply silly because the two peoples are completely different and the two situations also completely different. If after 300 years, those people are still "colonisers" what does that make most of the populations of the USA and Canada?!</p><p></p><p>I'd understand if you compared the Gibraltarians with, say, the Spanish in Ceuta but the Pied Noir? </p><p></p><p>Also, I seriously doubt that Serbia will ever sign a treaty over Kosovo. The EU has assumed that Serbia will eventually get bored and give up but nobody really understands just how strong <em>any</em> of the Balkan states feel about issues of land, tradition and so on. Serbia will only recognise Kosovan independence if Kosovo agrees to handover the Northern part of the country to Serbia (i.e. the areas where the Serbian enclaves are) and even that is a bit of an educated guess.</p><p></p><p>On Afghanistan, do you think that French will step in to fill the gap left by the soon to depart Canadians? I do know that in the center of the country France has been trying but that also public opinion has been shaken by the disaster that befell French when they were ambushed earlier this year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prestwick, post: 232037"] Too many assumptions. The comparison is still simply silly because the two peoples are completely different and the two situations also completely different. If after 300 years, those people are still "colonisers" what does that make most of the populations of the USA and Canada?! I'd understand if you compared the Gibraltarians with, say, the Spanish in Ceuta but the Pied Noir? Also, I seriously doubt that Serbia will ever sign a treaty over Kosovo. The EU has assumed that Serbia will eventually get bored and give up but nobody really understands just how strong [i]any[/i] of the Balkan states feel about issues of land, tradition and so on. Serbia will only recognise Kosovan independence if Kosovo agrees to handover the Northern part of the country to Serbia (i.e. the areas where the Serbian enclaves are) and even that is a bit of an educated guess. On Afghanistan, do you think that French will step in to fill the gap left by the soon to depart Canadians? I do know that in the center of the country France has been trying but that also public opinion has been shaken by the disaster that befell French when they were ambushed earlier this year. [/QUOTE]
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