Tag: Aggression

20.2 Democracy and Imperial Aggression

In the spring of 416 BC, the Athenians sent an expedition consisting of thirty-six ships and 1500 troops against the island of Melos. What was unusual about the expedition was that Melos, as a colony of Sparta, had never been a member of the Delian League and never been part of the Athenian Emp...

When an apology is an act of aggression

On Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009, President Barack Obama signed a Congressional Decree that “apologized” for the wrongs the United States Government committed against Indigenous Americans. Yet, the President held no official ceremony, invited no tribal leaders to witness or receive the apol...