I am going to have to speak to Sarkozy about a bombing campaign over London on behalf of Cornwall. Nothing says re-election quite like scared, running Englishmen. Didn't even get to see any of that in this year's Six Nations, I need my annual quota.

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The map perpetuates the lie imposed over a hundred years ago by European cartographers. They created straight line borders based on lines of lattitude and longitude.
One should never underestimate the power of tribal affiliation, nationalism, regionalism. I don't know the extent of the role these play in the conflict.

But the division of North Africa into 'Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli' is not a European invention, but an Ottoman one, adopted by France and Italy. Libya was ruled as a single entity by the Ottomans for centuries. One can't blame it all on three decades of European modernisation and massive investments, erm, colonialism.