Reply #119: So what?

[mobuto]

I'm not excusing other countries or peoples for the crimes committed in their names; the fact that Turkey commited genocide first, for example, doesn't excuse Germany or Rwanda from doing the same.

The United States is responsible for a series of heinous crimes over 87 years, which victimized many millions of people. That's a fact, and an ugly one, but it isn't mitigated by the knowledge that other peoples committed similar atrocities. Again, I don't support reparations, but I do think the United States is guilty for what it did.