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Comrade Grumpy

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9. Okay, how about "Kosovo?"

Reply to CJCRANE (Reply #5)

Tue Apr 9, 2013, 02:04 PM

Apr 2013

I distinctly recall reading New York Times stories about Albanian-Americans heading off to fight the Serbs.

And I know we had some Americans and Libyan-Americans participating in the overthrow of Gaddafi.

There were at least a handful of Americans who took up arms against the rightists in Central America in the 1980s.

And there was the Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War.

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You can't just go to another country CJCRANE Apr 2013 #5

Okay, how about "Kosovo?" Comrade Grumpy Apr 2013 #9

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