Originally Posted by ermitonto
According to that logic, the Holocaust was good because the Nazis were in power at the time. And the slave trade must have been completely justified too, because, hey, those Africans weren't taking over the white men with guns when they were chained up on those boats. And I guess Mussolini must have beed perfectly right in using Ethiopians as target practice for his troops, since after all, the Italian Army had control of Ethiopia and the Ethiopians weren't kicking them out with their bows and arrows. And the Native Americans are clearly to blame for the fact that they're nearly extinct as a result of history's most successful genocide, because they weren't powerful enough to stop the diseases and bullets they were being delivered. Way to go, Machiavelli.