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Ross Douthat is a New York Times columnist.

Your Semi-Regular Scottish Independence Update

By Ross Douthat
Sep 4 2007, 5:27 PM ET Comment

Ben Crair makes the interesting suggestion that "historians might look back at the war in Iraq" as the catalyst for Scottish secession from the United Kingdom. But Alex Massie isn't buying.

(I'm going to be terribly disappointed, incidentally, if the push for Scottish independence ends with a boring Parliamentary vote instead of "rough wooing"-style border campaign, followed by a rematch of Culloden.)

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