"On and on it went, year after blood-soaked year. Time and again, I would reach out with the open hand of friendship and time and again, they would slap it away.
"They were blind, ignorant fools. They couldn't see that if they had only chosen to cooperate with us, we could've turned their world into a paradise. From the moment we arrived on Bajor, it was clear that we were the superior race. But they couldn't accept that. They wanted to be treated as equals when they most definitely were not. Militarily, technologically, culturally -- we were almost a century ahead of them in every way.
"We did not choose to be the superior race, fate handed us our role. It would've been so much easier on everyone if the Bajorans had simply accepted their role. But no! Day after day they clustered in their temples and prayed for deliverance, and night after night they planted bombs outside our homes.
"Pride. That's what it was. Stubborn, unyielding pride. From the servant girl that cleaned my quarters to the condemned man toiling in a labor camp to the terrorist skulking through the hills of Dahkur Province, they each wore their pride like some twisted badge of honor.
"Of course I hated them! Their superstitions and their cries for sympathy, their treachery and their lies, their smug superiority and their stiff-necked obstinacy, their stupid earrings and their broken noses -- Yes I hated them, I hated everything about them!
"I should've killed every last one of them and turned their planet into a graveyard the likes of which the galaxy had never seen!"
SISKO (quiet)
"And that... is why you're not an evil man?"
STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - "Waltz" by Ronald D. Moore
el - Occupation harms the occupier as well as the occupied. It is a lesson that even those who were in the occupied position forget when they become the top dog. In fact, a group that has been occupied may have a stain on their soul for generations, much like those who grow up abused often become abusers. The American Southerners who make up the bulk of the U.S. military and the Israeli leaders may be current examples.
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