Reply #26: Good point - let us also look closer to home for horrors

[Voltaire99]

Germany's horrid past is in fact the subject of its laws, school textbooks, and current domestic and international policies.

America's horrid past is whitewashed by professional religious censors. Discussion thereof is shut down by a shrill right wing. Propaganda is substituted in its place, fed to children in school as simplistically as it is to those adults who suckle at CNN or FOX.

Guess which nation is likely to go on killing foreign peoples in the thousands by sanction, bomb, and bullet - all the while telling itself that its own perpetual innocence redeems the deed...