Did the U.S. ever apologize to Great Britain for "starting" the American Revolution?
Has the U.S. apologized for several million dead Vietnamese and Cambodians? For that matter -- has the U.S. government even apologized to its own citizens for p!ssing away 50,000+ American lives in that stupid war?
We have no reason to apologize for the Revolution - it was brought about by a long train of abuses, etc., etc. by Great Britain. Read your Declaration of Independence to learn something about why our forefathers revolted.
As to Vietnam & Cambodia - yeah, maybe we should, to those countries and to our vets. But maybe the Russians and Chinese should do so, as well.
Maybe if the people running governments around the world had 1/100 of the humility and decency of the average individual then less wars would start, and those that did might not last as long. You can call that simplistic if you’d like, but it is true...
...and the resentment of many vets for what they, their friends and their relatives had to go through is not open to question by us (not unless you, yourself, served in that conflictt - ONLY then do you have a right to criticize in such a contemptuous manner).
There are still some people on this site that pretend like they have some legit grudge against the royal family of Britain because of the revolution even though members have visited Washington’s tomb and many other revolution sites since the 1860 until recently, as invited guests.