I think there’s little doubt there will come a time, arguably after the living memories are extinguished, when all parties to this insanity apologise to each other.
So how long should it take before this happens? This would imply that we should start sending out apologies for the period before 1900, and how far back should we go with this? Should I, North European Cave Dweller apologise to a South European Cave Dweller for beating him with a large club and dragging away his favourite female by her hair to my own cave? I personally don’t remember doing this, but I’m sure one of my ancestors has. :rolleyes:
Indeed you can apologise after a fight, but in those cases the fight will generally have ended by common agreement, and not because one has the other by the throat. A war invariably leaves scars that no apology, however well and truly meant, can heal or even lessen. When people apologise, they usually say: ‘let’s forget about it’. That’s the one thing we cannot and should never do. Any war that has ended is now a part of history, and history is what we have to learn from so we don’t have to repeat it.
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