It is amazing how focused, professional, structured and disciplined these folks are. It is truely impressive!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35505844..._central_asia/
Just a shame that humanity has created such a world where this is all necessary. Imagine if this much time, money and effort were not necessary and could be applied to benefiting humanity overall.
When we travel abroad and go on tours of historic places, all we would hear about continually was; this site was detroyed and rebuilt X number of times when XYZ nation and ABC nation invaded. One example, . . . the Parthenon in Greece was basically intact until the Persians stored all of their ammunition in it and the Venetians blew it up from an adjacent mountain.
I must be naive, but why werent the Turks happy to live in Turky, Why wernt the Persians happy to live in Persia, etc etc etc. What the hell is the point??? Why don't people just live where they are and enjoy their own culture????
Now if country A had no natural resourses and country B had tons of resources, then you could possibly see a reason. But that historically has not been the case world wide. And even then, just migrate individually to country B and adopt their ways ?????
I know, I am naive, but what the hell !!!!!!
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