There is, though, one clearly partisan area -- redistricting.
Finding better solutions for the patients of today and those to come tomorrow should be a non-partisan area of agreement.
Although its aim was to fight Communist forces in the Soviet Union, the Russian Corps, when engaged in combat, was used almost exclusively to fight the Yugoslav Partisans in areas of occupied Yugoslavia.
The outline concept was that the Chetniks would set up a corridor through the Italian occupied zone of the NDH as far as the Partisan liberated area in western Bosnia and Lika, neutralising the Italians through a combination of vague promises, encouraging them to surrender, and disarming them if necessary.
In the ensuing clashes, one of the division's regiments lost more than 1,000 men and many Albanians deserted, some after Serb Partisan attacks on areas northeast of Gusinje.
The meeting also agreed that joint Chetnik-Partisan administration would be imposed on liberated areas, using the Partisan model of people's liberation committees.
But though they may be defensively ill-sited, they do provide South Korea with a useful balcony from which to spy on the North Korean coast, and during the war, offshore islands were frequently used as staging areas for partisan operations and raids.
In November 1944, Tito declared that the Volksdeutsche of Yugoslavia were hostile to the nation, and ordered the internment of those living in areas under Partisan control.
Most of the people never became out-and-out partisans, but in large areas of the country there was ferocious strife, even tantamount to civil war.
Immigration is likely to be another area of partisan warfare, said Rebecca M. Blank, an economist and dean of public policy at the University of Michigan, since children in immigrant families are far more likely to be poor.
