Quote Originally Posted by Cloud No.9
"Vietnam was fought in a war. Why should reparations be paid?" because that is what you do when you lose a war and destory a country in the process. we ordered germany to do the same thing, twice.
No, that's what you do when you 'lose' a war (Which the US didn't, it was the home front where problems were.) and the enemy has the capacity to force reparations out of you.

Quote Originally Posted by Lindy
The Israelis just stole a large portion of Palestine and claimed it as their own, with the help of the UN (I think it was the UN), I'm sure if a religion claiming to be a race of people came along and just stole a portion of the town where you live, you'd be just deliriously happy, wouldn't you?
The UK. And sorry, but the largest obstacles to peace have been the Palestinians. Are the Israelis free from blame? No. Have they been saints? No. But they've made concession after concession which have been resolutely rejected by the terrorist Arafat - note that now he is gone, things are actually happening - even when they offered basically 95% of what the Palestinians were demanding.