Quote Chris Dalton="Chris Dalton"I don't think you'll get many defending every aspect of Britains colonial past these days, but that's my point. As President of the USA, he has to deal with the Germans, with their recent national socialist past, the Italians who stood with them as fascists, the French with their colonial past, the Japanese who were at war with the USA not long ago, the Chinese, with their long history of oppression and the Middle East, no explanations necessary. He also has to deal with Cambodia and Vietnam, two cultures who may distrust the USA for much the same reasons that he might distrust us. You have to put that aside and live in the now. You can't pick and choose which elements of history you're going to hold against people in his position.
Anyway, we're way off topic!'"
I agree, Chris.
He does need to move on. As leader of the “free world” it is incredibly childish to carry on a vendetta against a whole nation for something which happened 60 years ago to his grandfather. Clearly, as this was an incident which has directly affected a member of his own family, he simply can’t stop grinding his axe. If he wasn’t the president of the United States of America, I’d understand.
It’s a shame really because, other than that, I quite like him. I’ve not felt that way about a US presedent… well… ever.
fantastic thread.
