Are you a child, or just someone who regularly listens to FOX News?
Neither. Don't get too offensive. I have a way of embarrassing the ignorant like you who feel the need for personal insults to "prove" their adulthood.
The Americans have always, since the start of your young nation, been behind the curb of progress, compared to Europe (especially Britain, France and Germany). I could list innumerable examples of how America is still in the 19th century compared to Europe (stem cell research bans, lack of universal healthcare, shoddy welfare, total disregard for enriched education), but that's not what I'm going to debate right now -- those are universally accepted facts, anyway.
You won't debate these things because one, they have nothing to do with the subject of genocide, and two, you are focusing on particular aspects of western society, which is what I could do. Pointless, seeing has how America is greater at some things and Europe is greater at others. But I'm an an adult capable of discussing as an adult.
Back to genocide, Europe's ongoing fascination for genocide lasted well into the twentieth century with Germany and Russia and into the 90's in the Balkans where European governments were more than willing to ignore. And Spain was a dictatorship of brutality and oppression well into the 70s was it not? But this is a European progress Europeans pretend doesn't exist as they unfairly bash away at a nation across the ocean that long placed genocide in the rear view mirror.
Your intentional use of "young nation" is clinical proof of the resentment held by Europeans who can't cope with the fact that your historical powers have been reduced to nothing in the face of usurpers across the sea largely through your own behaviors. Grow up.
What I'm going to incredulously question you on is how exactly you think the Americans "voluntarily chose to face the moral consequences of genocide". America has done nothing of the sort, apart from a mere pittance of money given to the American Indians still living on reservations for "past crimes" -- America would sooner balk than admit it was the perpetrator of a continent-wide genocide.
America has faced, admitted, and facilitated apologies on many levels to native Americans. It can not bring back the dead. What has Europe done about it's long history of ethnic cleansings and genocides throughout history? America's one inherited genocide on the American frontier equals the countless genocides across Europe throughout history? To you this is sound, because Europeans have a psycological need to alleviate guilt and cultural shame. To answer your question, it was America that fought a Civil War to free slaves and America that identified what it had done to the native American long after Europeans set the pace of genocide (prior to 1774). Come the twentieth century, it was America that had to come across the ocean to make Europe face it's own genocides during WWII and again in the 90s in the Balkans. Could you not do this on your own? History suggests a definate no.
Furthermore, in no way did the Americans come over to Europe to "force Europeans to face" our own moral failings with the genocides we've committed -- it's prepostrous. The Americans weren't liberators or saviours or heroes, as much as Hollywood would like to re-write history as such -- no, the Americans were, on the grand scale of World War II, a bunch of pragmatic cowards who stayed out of the war as long as they could, and then only joined in on the side they knew would win already due to the sacrifices of greater nations.
Typical European. Paying attention Bub? He and Pete represent your kind......
It's your education systems that have been long seeking to rewrite history in a fashion that leaves you with a sense of dignity. In the end, it was American forces that had to come across the ocean, after fighting it's own war in the Pacific, to engineer Normandy. After fighting the Japanses largely all alone, Americans had to come to your pathetic aids because you weren't strong enough or culturaly savvy enough to preserve yourselves. It was America that facilitated the counterattack after the British had been kicked off the continent (France was nothing and Spain was a non-player). It was America that got sucked into what was your business to handle but proven incapable to handle. It was American oil that provided the bulk of resources to aid the allies. In the end, German engineered genocide was put to the rest because America decided to be a player in your unearned liberations (which Russia now receives aaaaaaaal the credit).
Is this where European education has evolved to now? What say you Pete? Seeking America as the coward in history? Pathetic. Your'e just embarrassed that you can never solve your own self induced crisis without us. Even WWI needed an American engineered Bellaeu Wood to save Paris and turn that first European civil war around. And the Cold War? Good luck without American power. In the end, you wish to call us cowards for showing up late as if we are responsible for you. Then you boldly label us as "young" as if we don't matter. You very much appear to have emotional problems of identity (wannabe Soviet) while seeking to blast America no matter what. In the end, Germany was the power in Europe. It would have been far less deadlier to Americans to simple shake German hands rather than liberating the defeated French, bruised out British and what ever else was in the underground. A Cold War would have been far easier too with an allied Nazi Germany taking the heat from the Soviet Union.
Congratulations Pete. Your hunger to blast all things American has you celebrating stupidity.
Where, in that, do you see America showing the Europeans the 'wrongness of their ways'?
It's not about showing you anything. It's about having to be involved in your messes. Were you involved with our Civil War or Civil Rights or dealing with Native American genocides, which were rooted in European engineering in the 17th century? Nope. Americans tackled these things within their own society without outsider help. Can European ever say the same thing with both World Wars, a Cold War and the "Yugoslavian" event proving otherwise?
As I recall, only a few short years later, the Americans were committing their own war crimes in Korea, and then committing full-on napalm-style genocide in Vietnam.
Hardly war crimes. In the mean time, the French were torturing hundreds of thousands of Algerians publicly (no punishments handed out). But this is what Europeans like you do isn't it? Seek any American imperfection to make themselves feel better about a complete absurdity in their history as if it soothes the guilt. Hell, a few waterboard events against probable terrorists makes European torture programs non-existent. Hundreds of thousands of tortured Algerians are washed away because a handful got waterboarded by Americans in 2005-ish.
Here you actually sought the Korean War and Vietnam War (French origins by the way) to wash away Nazi Germany behavior. I guess the ovens and the 18 million slaughtered in Korea and Vietnam for their differences from "perfection" escaped the history books you've personally made for yourself (and apparently Pete EU).
Oh, yes, those upstanding Americans surely hold the high-ground over us measly, intolerant Europeans.
We do. You people have proven to be more than capable of causing global crisis and not capable of dealing with them in the end without us. We have not needed you. It's you that have eventually grovelled for support and aid. You call us cowards for showing up late? I call you inept and completely proven to be incapable of handling your own instigated affairs. Even today's economic crisis is beyond European capability because you all leach so strongly to American table scraps for support and growth. In one breath you accuse us of being the "world policemen" and then accuse of cowards for not poking our noses into your affairs before you'ev obliterated any chance of self preservation. Your kind are pathetic. So deep in your denials of self identity you cling to fantasy and stupidity for your own sense of fabricated dignity and pride.
