Well, first off, the Europeans and Americans did unforgivable damage to the Oceanic islands throughout the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. They stripped the land bare of its natural resources, and the US even dropped atomic bombs on an island and is refusing to repay the necessary $200,000,000 (handed down by a court decision) to the original settlers for funding in order to clean up radiation, figure out ways to restore vegetation, and the horrible conditions the original villages were forced to face. The Europeans and Australians, meanwhile, stole all the phosphate and other minerals away from the land, and the people must rely on exporting diminishing deposits (if there are any left at all). I would expect that they should pay more than the couple million that they have already paid. Not to mention that the third-world countries are causing more and more pollution.
And the United States really needs to apologize and recompensate for the atrocities commited in Vietnam and Korea, as well as their interference in the politics of other countries. Since World War II, I suppose that no country as ever been more anti-Democratic than the United States, not even the USSR. The CIA assassinated Zaire's leader to put up Mobutu, who was one of the most ruthless dictators ever (never holding an election, becoming one of the richest men in the world while his country suffered greatly, with their GDP per capita dropped 2/3 during his regime). Not to mention their interfering in essentially all the Central American and Carribean countries, citing "democracy" and humanitarian aid as their reason when really they were really doing nothing but helping out multinationals. In addition, they wiped out a supposedly "Communist" prime minister in Iran (Mussadegh), though he came to power no differently than any PM in England would come to power. They also were involved in over 30 attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro, as well as in notorious plans to destabilize the governments in Chile (and eventually assassinating their leader). When is the US going to realize its mistakes and apologize? I'm guessing never.
And the United States really needs to apologize and recompensate for the atrocities commited in Vietnam and Korea, as well as their interference in the politics of other countries. Since World War II, I suppose that no country as ever been more anti-Democratic than the United States, not even the USSR. The CIA assassinated Zaire's leader to put up Mobutu, who was one of the most ruthless dictators ever (never holding an election, becoming one of the richest men in the world while his country suffered greatly, with their GDP per capita dropped 2/3 during his regime). Not to mention their interfering in essentially all the Central American and Carribean countries, citing "democracy" and humanitarian aid as their reason when really they were really doing nothing but helping out multinationals. In addition, they wiped out a supposedly "Communist" prime minister in Iran (Mussadegh), though he came to power no differently than any PM in England would come to power. They also were involved in over 30 attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro, as well as in notorious plans to destabilize the governments in Chile (and eventually assassinating their leader). When is the US going to realize its mistakes and apologize? I'm guessing never.
