Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Unfair

Today in class we had to read a treaty and highlight the main parts of the story, comment on what we don’t understand or was confused on. For our homework we were supposed to explain a few reasons we think it is fair or not. The treaty I read today in class to me was fairly unfair to the government and to Germanys people. They have so little solders, weapons and transportation. Therefore it is hard for them to protect their self from other places that could and may attack them in the sooner or later in the future. Germany causes damage and they are the ones that will eventually pay for it and the other people that live in Germany have caused and I don’t think that is very fair for the Germany citizens but it might be for other countries because they don’t have to worry about anything to do with cost. Some sentences in this passage is not true and people think it is very obvious that it is not true just b reading it. Two quotes I got from the passage that I thought were not true are ' Germany and her Allies accept the responsibility for causing all the loss and damage to the Allied Powers.' Another one would be “It is the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak. Unless this principle be made its foundation, no part of the structure of international justice can stand.”