As much as it might suck for some victims, once your victimizer is dead, that’s it. We can’t all be held responsible for the crimes of everyone in our genetic lineages, let alone our national histories, or we would all be lined up for capital punishment for the uncountable rapes and murders our predecessors committed in near total impunity.
I dunno, the US should pay reparations to Iraq for their false invasion over WMDs, but instead, any oil money Iraq makes is held in US banks and only accessible via US government approval.
I both agree and disagree. It would be good for America to take some level of responsibility for what happened, but I am also of the set that says Iraq is a cross-cultural region that should probably be redistributed according to local understandings of the territory rather than the economic desires of early-middle-of-the-last-century English and French people, because Iraq’s governments have had trouble trying to establish enough legitimacy to override longer standing cultural ties. Either way, America should probably cough up something, at the very least an acknowledgment of fault, and stop interfering in what should be local matters.
Call me a cynic, but I suspect it would be entirely possible for representatives of the US government to say something is bad without paying a penny to do anything about it.
As much as it might suck for some victims, once your victimizer is dead, that’s it. We can’t all be held responsible for the crimes of everyone in our genetic lineages, let alone our national histories, or we would all be lined up for capital punishment for the uncountable rapes and murders our predecessors committed in near total impunity.
I dunno, the US should pay reparations to Iraq for their false invasion over WMDs, but instead, any oil money Iraq makes is held in US banks and only accessible via US government approval.
I both agree and disagree. It would be good for America to take some level of responsibility for what happened, but I am also of the set that says Iraq is a cross-cultural region that should probably be redistributed according to local understandings of the territory rather than the economic desires of early-middle-of-the-last-century English and French people, because Iraq’s governments have had trouble trying to establish enough legitimacy to override longer standing cultural ties. Either way, America should probably cough up something, at the very least an acknowledgment of fault, and stop interfering in what should be local matters.
Problem is (or not really a problem) that acknowledgement of fault would lead to a case with international courts for reparations
Call me a cynic, but I suspect it would be entirely possible for representatives of the US government to say something is bad without paying a penny to do anything about it.
The government that allowed/encouraged the injustices hasn’t died yet.