Re: <fwd> The Imminent Militarisation of the European Union

Dear WSN,

        No, I did not mean to mention Arabs twice--a slip of the pen.  No,
I did not omit anybody else deliberately.  Germans, Persians, Incans,
Yankees, Ashanti, Hittites, Portuguese, Turks, Dutch, Han, you are all
included, and thousands more!
        
        Warren


On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 wwagar@binghamton.edu wrote:

> 
> Dear WSN,
> 
>       It does help--a little, at least--to know something about the
> history of the world.  To know about the aggressions of Vikings, Mongols,
> Aztecs, Aryans, Manchus, Moguls, Arabs, Hebrews, Romans, Carthaginians,
> Arabs, Greeks, English, Spanish, Japanese, Zulus, in fact almost every
> damned race and ethnicity on the face of our planet, all ruthless in their
> turn, all bloodthirsty, all bent on bending others to their will.
> 
>       None of this excuses anyone, not the 21st-Century E.U., not the
> West, not the North, not the East, not the South.  Let us just accept the
> truth, that we are all complicit in rapine and slaughter, and that we must
> try to begin again, and build the Human Commonweal.  I don't recall that
> Karl Marx spared anyone from their just condemnation.  Neither should we.  
> 
>       Warren
> 
>