Sure, there was a wronged party, and many students will get their PhDs in analyzing guilt and documenting atrocities.
The USA is still in no hurry to give back land to the Native Americans. They are as sorry as all heck… but the practical reality is they want to continue to exist, and are not willing to give up anything strategic for historical purposes.
The key to life is, the past is informative, but not important, the future is what is important. Living in peace but wronged is better then dying right in war.
Right, but when someone asks me who I stand with on these conflicts, it’s not the English, the Boers or the English (again).
The native americans, the Zulu, the IRA all committed terrible things on the colonialist civilians as well. And yet when you ask today who was in the right to fight the war that was fought, it’s those parties. Never the colonialists.
Sure, there was a wronged party, and many students will get their PhDs in analyzing guilt and documenting atrocities.
The USA is still in no hurry to give back land to the Native Americans. They are as sorry as all heck… but the practical reality is they want to continue to exist, and are not willing to give up anything strategic for historical purposes.
The key to life is, the past is informative, but not important, the future is what is important. Living in peace but wronged is better then dying right in war.
Right, but when someone asks me who I stand with on these conflicts, it’s not the English, the Boers or the English (again).
The native americans, the Zulu, the IRA all committed terrible things on the colonialist civilians as well. And yet when you ask today who was in the right to fight the war that was fought, it’s those parties. Never the colonialists.
Are you asking for Palestinians to accept apartheid?
Clearly not, the only solution is to work toward equal rights and shared economic development for all people living in the same area.
Religious wars, ethnocentric states, apartheid are unsustainable and only lead to violence.