Letters to the Editor
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If the table were turned...
Imagine a technologically superior and expansive culture from somewhere else on the planet or from some other time and place showing up at the front gate of the USA demanding to be let in and allowed to set up shop where they'd spread their superior explanations regarding law, religion and sex. They could point there fingers at Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell and exclude their backwards university perversions from speading while exposing them for what they are. They'd buy the best that our museums had and take it away from us and leave us with strange diseases the cures for which they'd sell us for what to them was a fair price.
It sounds ludicrous now, but history is long and human perspective is short in comparison. Who'd a thunk that the vikings would be best known one day as the founders of the Nobel Peace Prize..or that the Roman Legions would be reduced to funny costumes in movies and that the Italian army would be synomymous (justifiably so or not) with surrender. Or that a black mixed race son of a Kenyan farmer from a broken family would one day be in contention for the worlds most powerful position and be elected in a popular democratic vote in a nation that a few generations previous would have considered him sub-human.
We'd do well to read history for its message and not for its tactics.