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To: SARMAN who wrote (275431)	6/5/2010 9:59:33 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

History is full of horrors, conquest, ethnic cleansing and genocide Sarmaniac. What matters is where we go from here. Tibet, USA, New Zealand, Canada, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, on and on and on and on everywhere you look is a history of conquest and genocide to a greater or lesser extent. That was how life worked and unfortunately still does in recent times such as in Rwanda and Srebenica. Personally, it doesn't seem too bright to set up a Jewish state in Israel though it must have seemed like a good idea at the time given the various geopolitical shifts in power and cultural norms over the last 150 years. In fact, 3 million [my Holocaust denial figure] or 5 million [give or take a million] murders of Jews might not have happened if they had had a chance to flee quarter of a century earlier after the defeat of the Ottomans. Arabs should be thrilled that hordes of Jews want to set up shop right there. With all the oil and other advantages, the region could be phenomenal and take over from both USA and China as the big deal place. The cross roads of humanity. Maoris did extremely well by having England taking over their tribal cannibalistic subsistence stone age lives. So it's not as though it's all bad being "conquered". African Americans are much better off as descendants of slaves in the USA than as descendants of slaves in Africa where life is still harsh to borderline survivable. Personally, I like backing people more talented than me. It makes my life better and their's too, not to mention lots of customers' lives. Mqurice