"Nice words, but. Orientals have historically been cruel to each other, and we also see that in the Middle East, Arab on Arab, Moslem on Moslem. Recent larger examples, Saddam Hussein's fights with IraN, and invasion of Kuwait."
The stupidity of Saddam aside,this comment about 'Orientals' is absurd, in light of all of European History. One could slice the map of Europe into 100 Km. wide stripes running north and south, with a time line running left to right as a graph - the incidence of wholesale butchery,slaughter, lies, - There is no equal on the planet.
Henry VIII alone, beheading his wife over and over - or the ongoing practice over centuries of stripping the skin from live humans as a public spectacle,roasting people alive at the stake, or suspended twenty feet in the air so that their genitals would be observed by the crowd, slowly cooked - I could bore you with more.
The Egyptians were erecting pyramids when China was a fully developed civilization, with every facet of human understanding within its grasp.