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Originally Posted by Zrinski
You know there is barely one nation that was innocent to their neighbouring nations....especially in Europe. The point is in overcoming the past and looking towards the future. Calling upon past events will bring us nothing good....believe me I know from my own personal experience(ex-Yugoslavia wars)...
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Sounds common sense to me.
We are all "condemned" to live next to each other. Russians with Ukrainians, with Slovaks, with Croats, with Serbs, .. Easterners with Westerners.
There is no doubt that there is much that makes us different. Different nations, different groups (slavic, hellenic, romance, germanic, hispanic, celtic). But that is an enriching factor which amounts to the uniqueness of Europe ... and to her vulnerability too.
We risk to become the tribalist hutus and tutsis of the future, while macro-countries like America keep growing, or others like China or India awake.
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
–Plato–
'Many people, I believe, wish for a society where faith, decency, pro-life convictions and national self-determination within Europe can flourish; and not be swallowed up in a dictatorial EU bureaucracy.'
–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–