05-20-2015, 01:21 PM
(05-20-2015, 01:07 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Not sure the reason for the question, but no I have not been in the region for over a century; however, I can tell you very little has changed in that country over the last 100 years. I was also unaware that it could only be considered history if it was 100 years or greater.
You said you experienced the history of the U.S. and other western involvement in the region that led to the animosity against us. In order to experience that history you would have had to have been there for it. That's over a century of western meddling before you were there.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
