Posted on 10/21/2011 5:09:44 PM PDT by naturalman1975
So much for history as a subject. But I might suggest you take your own advice. You've the one who seems to have a chip on your shoulder.
That is an absolutely ridiculous request ~ of course not.
I only remember Lazmataz replying to a post of mine once with one of his bottomless supply of 'funny' images and, yes, I bailed out of that thread straight away.
"Yup, you can't win this one!"
No doubt true - I was just wondering what your gripe was.
Turned out most of the deaths have happened as a consequence of simple relocation of civilian populations at the limits of their resources.
It's such a well known phenomenon it has been inexcusable for any government entity in the last 5000 years to plead innocent of intent when this happened.
So, I, like many other Americans, keep our eye on this stuff and do what we can to bring the evil doers to justice, or to stop things before they happen. Little we can do about Congo and its recurring bouts of genocide, but we can do something about honoring those who participated in or fostered earlier genocides.
This concern has colored my understanding of people like Teddy Kennedy and Senator Leahy ~ they both participated in a process that resulted in the death of over 500,000 civilians, mostly women and children. Not quite sure what punishment would be appropriate for them, but hopefully we can erase them from the memory of mankind eventually.
Smuts was a brilliant but practical man, a realist, the perfect proto-type of an American RHINO.
Seeing his nation under the british boot, he hoped for the best, and by grace never lived to see that in fact he was a traitor to his people.
Kill the Boer.
Duncan Dear,
I was only refering to the “tens of thousands” of children in South Africa.
But that was just a Victorian parlor game.
Think India, Burma, China, North and Mid Africa, etc., etc., and so forth.
Then you should have made that clear in your original post.
Even if you include all the others, I’m pretty sure she’s still a minor-leaguer compared to the first-string slaughterers of the modern era - Carson, Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot et. al.
Former colonies of England have, overall, fared far better than colonies of other nations.
Just noticed your reply.
Why were you in the centuries old Boers land?
Why were you in the Holy land?
Why were you in Mesopotamia?
Why cannot you get beyond the hubris which has left America bleeding cleaning up your sh*t.
I agree: the British had no business being in Palestine or Natal. The US should have left Iraq sooner rather than put American troops in the position of being colonial police.
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