I remember my father telling me about England’s redrawing of India’s boundaries when it became independent. They wanted to separate the Hindu from the Muslim, but they used outdated maps. Twelve million people had to relocate because the Brits screwed it up so badly. And a half million people died during the resulting chaos. And before that, Iraq was unilaterally cobbled together, causing many of the conflicts we see today. There are dozens of such examples. The strong countries smashing the weaker ones and then avoiding responsibility later for the very problems they caused.”“ You keep proving my point, Tom, that we’re rotten to the core.”“ My point is we never learn!. David Baldacci
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "rotten" was first recorded in 1390 and means "cankerous (rotten), unhealthy, corrupt; to rot; to decay; as a rotten tooth; a rotten egg."

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