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King Leopold Greed

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I think that it was financial greed that motivated King Leopold the II the most. He was once quoted saying that, “there is really nothing left for us kings except money!”(Hochschild, Adam) The whole reason for the genocide that came about was all a result of King Leopold trying to attain wealth. He felt that creating a new settlement would be his in to creating his own wealth. Also he was so stingy with munitions supplied to his private army he made his soldiers prove that they hit the person they were aiming for by cutting off their head. Otherwise they would be punished for wasting a bullet.

Well in comparison to halters genocide of the Jews, King Leopold’s persecution isn’t perceived as being nearly as sever. Now when I say this I don’t mean that King Leopold was any better than Hitler, because he wasn’t, but with regard to sheer volume of lives lost in WWII King Leopold looked like a child. In Hitler’s case from 1939-1945, just 6 years, over 60 million deaths were credited to WWII worldwide. Where as with King Leopold his persecutions lasted from 1885-1908 a span of 23 …show more content…

I think that people rely on the United States too much to intervene and when they take no action the country is ridiculed for its decision. I also feel that US citizens are too involved in the rest of the world, I get the want and need to help other people that are less fortunate than you but the US’s method for intervention just ends up making people hate us more at times. It’s not our job to baby sit the rest of the world, but we should be teaching other countries that are in distress how to properly and sustain a modern and civil form of rules and government. what needs to happen is the United Nations would need to come together and intervene as a whole. It should never be up to one nation to decide the path of another nation, but for some reason citizens think that they need to do

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