Mike_L on 20 May 2016
| Aeolus451 said: I don't think he should to be honest. It's in the past and obama didn't have anything to do with it. Also, white people shouldn't apologize for slavery. It's in the past and they don't have anything to do with it today. |
It doesn't make you a smaller person or country when you apologize, rather the opposite.
If it's important for victims of such terrible actions (both sides) to receive an apology in order to find peace, I don't see why one shouldn't be given.
Angela Merkel didn't have anything to do with the persecution of the Jewish population. Still, she has apologized for Germany's actions during WW2 because it meant a lot for many people that found it easier to move on constructively afterwards.
