The So Called Industrialized World Has Blood on Its Hands
When I hear people talk about how great western Europe is and how we should try to be more like them, I have to wonder "Are they thinking about the way western Europe got so rich?" Because if they are, then we are exactly like Great Britain, Belgium, France and the rest.
Here are two books available online for free that everyone should read.
First, Conan Doyle on the atrocity that was Belgium's rubber trade in the Congo:
http://www.kongo-kinshasa.de/dokumente/lekture/crime_of_congo.pdf
Then, Emily Hobhouse on the British concentration camps for women and children in the Boer War:
https://books.google.com/books?id=bb9c7Vce0iAC&pg=PA95&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false
The United States has learned its lesson well. Just like the Dutch, the French, the British, we snatch the crust of bread from the hand of the starving third world child---and congratulate ourselves on how civilized we are. And how much more civilized we will be when all Americans have health care and maternity leave, like our cousins in Western Europe. But I don't hear nearly as many people protesting the ongoing war in the Congo--a proxy war waged by the so called civilized countries including the US. The war in the Congo is longest ongoing war in the world, much worse than Afghanistan.
Anyone who says we need to be more like Western Europe needs to find a moral compass.
= new reply since forum marked as read
