Peter W. Galbraith Quotes
When you have people in a geographical area who do not want to be a part of a country, you cannot keep them in that country forever.
Peter W. Galbraith, U.S. Ambassador to Croatia, Director for Political, Constitutional and Electoral Affairs for the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), Senior advisor to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Interview, C-SPAN Book TV, August 27, 2006
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He persuaded many other rulers to join the Indian Union when India became Independent.
French Canadian separatists had begun a movement for an independent Quebec. The area that was to be an independent nation, however, included the land of several Indian tribes including the Cree. They insisted on the same right of self-determination within Quebec as the French Canadians claimed within Canada. Their opposition among others led to the failure of the Meech Lake Accord.
Adams died on July 4th.
Arguing that the Arabs will never agree willingly to a Jewish state:
At the partition if India into Hindu and Muslim States, what is now Bangladesh, was a part of Pakistan called “East Pakistan” by the Pakistani government. While India became a thriving democracy, Pakistan with its combination of military strongmen and Islamic Fundamentalists did not fare as well and became a very corrupt, undemocratic military nation. East Pakistan was not contiguous with the rest of Pakistan and was culturally quite different and less religiously fundamentalist. While all Pakistanis suffered from poor government, the East Pakistanis fared worse. Finally, they developed their own identity which was suppressed by the military dictators of Pakistan and the Banglas revolted and Bangladesh became and independent nation.
Peter Woodard Galbraith is an American author, academic, commentator, politician, policy advisor, and former United States diplomat.
