metonymy4u

When we blast our way all over the world trumpeting the coming of democracy and freedom, I think we forget the long history of cruelty that forms the background of our actions. I mean the cruelty of Rome and of Persia, of Aztec and Inca, of the Muslim Conquista and the Christian Re-conquista, thence the European invasion and the European Shoah, now the Palestinian Shoah. It is tempting indeed to read all of these cruelties as the fate of humanity written in the language of blood. But such a story ends only in more blood, it seems. Are we not due for another story?