[LS]

I'm well familiar with the Mayans and the Incas and, yes, the Jannissaries, who nevertheless themselves viewed their position as "elites" and who reacted badly when the Jannissary corps was "opened" to non-slave members in the 1300s or so. Regardless, this is a looooonnnng way from chattel negro slavery in America, and I think you well know it.

[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

If you are familiar with the Turks' criminal practices, perhaps you can picture a country where, each year, every little village must produce its share of live babies to be delivered to the Turk. Imagine the heartbreak.

Then, years later, when the Turk's Janissaries come to town to do some killing, imagine how the locals felt about it. Their own babies returning to punish them for giving them up to the Turk in the first place.

If that's not an enormous crime of 'history', then I don't know what is. Bush refered to crimes of history, not of 'recent history'. The African slave trade was a mild process compared to some far bigger horrors and the humiliation inflicted by groups of humans upon other
groups of humans.

I guess I should be asking for preparations too.