20 September 2006
Did he mean the Twentieth Century?
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, while defending the Pope, said that "all the wars of the twentieth century were caused by European countries and the United States".
Really? All the wars of the Twentieth Century? That would be the period between 1900 and 1999, right?
Which would include, in roughly chronological order, the Moro Insurrection, the Ottoman Empire fighting on the German side during World War One, the Armenian genocide by the Turks, the slaughter of the Greeks in Smyrna, the Arabs fighting on the German side during World War Two, the continuing Pakistani-Indian wars, the 1948 war, the 1967 war, the 1972 War, the Munich massacre, the Intifada, the Algerian civil war, Chechneya, ad infinitum.
Damn, I didn't know the Americans and the Europeans were responsible for all those wars, too...
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