i don’t think i’ll wach gibson moovie

i think mel gibson is a big fan of the enqvizitzia!!!

That’s a pretty weak comparison there. Gibson said his interpretation was based on Emmerich, so it’s reasonable to discuss her writings. Haiti’s founding and early history as an independent nation differed from other islands in the Caribbean, so it isn’t unreasonable to mention that — although recent history would be more interesting to me since I don’t have a clue what happened under Aristide myself. Just because computer science is only 50 years old, and got stuck in a rut thirty years is no reason to badmouth regular history for being so distant.

I believe President Bush did a diservic e to democratic governments he doesn’t like by getting rid of Aristide. His father did the same to Aristide.

The USA has not helped Haiti to come out of its misery.

I believe President Bush did a diservic e to democratic governments he doesn’t like by getting rid of Aristide. His father did the same to Aristide.

The USA has not helped Haiti to come out of its misery.

What? Are you suggesting that we abandon root cause analysis?
If we are no longer allowed to investigate our past in order to understand our current plight, then what exactly are we supposed to do? Cut our palms and have visions, or cast bones on the floor?

And then there is the whole. ‘Those that forget their past are doomed to repeat it’, thing.

I mean, if we are unable to find the cause of current ‘bad outcomes’ in the past because we might offend the spawn of some ‘dead europeans’, then we should be equally unable to consider any future bad outcomes of our own actions.

Seems like blind arrogance to me. Maybe it’s the blind arrogance of past european colonialists and religious zealots that makes them perfect targets for our analysis of misdeeds of the past and the bad outcomes that we live with.

Now, if we americans (and dare I say europeans) were more educated in the outrageous acts of cultures other than our own, then we could probably point the finger equally at non-’dead europeans’ for current situations that have been wrought as a by-product of their non-dead european hands.

Philip is the only person I know of who is a troll on his own site.

Two hundred years in a history of a nation is a short time to change human behavior without force. For one example, think that slavery was abolished in the U.S. in 1865, but the first black generation that grew up in freedom and equality was born in 1970s.

Compare today Serbs living a couple of miles away, across the river Danube which marked the border between the Austro-Hungarian empire (north) and the Ottoman empire (south). In the north, they live in neatly painted houses lined along geometrically straight roads, behind tall walls keeping the privacy of their property. Villages just south of Danube are hectically built around worn-out curvy roads, having short transparent fences displaying property in slight disarray. The north prides itself with culinary craft and the taste for fine arts from Austria and Hungary. The south takes pride in warriorship and macho attitude, and jokes about its own widespread bribery inherited from the Ottomans.

Serbia proper was liberated from the (Turkish) Ottoman Empire in the early 1800s, and united with the north in 1918.

There is absolutely no question, that if separated, the two regions would have very different economies. Just like there are vast differences between other ex-Yugoslavia states. And that is all after a century of common life, mostly under communism which tried to kill out (pun intended) all differences in religion and nationality.

I think the huge real estate values in some of the more expensive areas can be tracked directly back to the early American Indians.

By greedily holding out for 3 bead neclaces instead of accepting the perfectly fair 2 for Manhattan, they set the bar for future purchases at a pretty high mark.

After hundreds of years, the markup from that one bead necklace has caused real estate to sky rocket. Just imagine what it’d be like if real estate cost only 1/3 of what it does right now.

Dead Europeans?  I dunno, but I think Sigmund Freud can be blamed for a few of the things that are wrong with modern society.