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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: aladin who wrote (114389)9/10/2003 2:39:58 PM
From: Jacob Snyder  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
<we should take the South African approach>

I agree. But the S. African method required a very public and very detailed repentence, before forgiveness. And forgiveness doesn't mean forgetting.

The Israelis have never repented of Begin's terrorism. Or Sharon's. Quite the opposite: they give them supreme power, and treat them as national heroes. Likewise, Americans teach their children a history that is mostly self-congratulatory Myth. We have never repented of the sins of Washington against the Seneca, or Jackson against the Seminoles, or McKinley and Rooseveldt against the Phillipinoes, or Kissinger and Nixon against the Chileans. When we have torn down the statues of every one of them (mass murderers, every one), and discredited all the think-tanks and historians that glorify or ignore their butchery, and when we teach our kids true history instead of Myth, then it will be time to forgive. But never, never forget.
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