"Bedlam in Belgium, who's to blame, it's a shame"

Leave it to the eerily prescient AC/DC to give voice to the (apparently minority) opinion that the break up of BELGIUM would be a sad chapter in world history.
I was chipping away at the ice encasing our sidewalk this morning and listening to AC/DC when I remembered the band's song "Bedlam in Belgium."
Admittedly, given AC/DC's time-honored sensibilities, the song has more to do with a barroom brawl than with a constitutional crisis. Still, lyrics like "so we'd like to stay, stay just the same" have a weird way of fitting the current political stalemate.
Belgium's problems never make the American news, so here is a brief recap:
Talks at forming a coalition government have collapsed, more than five months after general elections. The would-be prime minister, Yves Leterme, was unable to placate leaders from Dutch-speaking Flanders and French-speaking Wallonia. It is unclear whether King Albert II will be able to do anything to prevent a political split between the two sides.
The nation can host the European Union, NATO and several other international organizations of cooperation, but can't seem to cooperate within their own borders.
Created in 1830, Belgium has always seemed like a unified nation in name only. About 58 percent of the population are Flemish (the folks in the northern region of Flanders) and 32 percent are Walloons (the folks who live in the south and speak French). The two sides watch their own TV channels, send their kids to separate schools, read their own newspapers and -- unfortunately -- seem on the verge of splitting into two separate nations, too.
"It was bedlam in Belgium, Bedlam in Belgium, Came for a good time, left on the run."