The explanation for the title of this article is so simple that by the end of it, some of you reading may wonder why I even wrote it, but I’ll carry on anyway… What happens when citizens of countries are kidnapped by foreigners? What happens when a nation’s warriors are taken as POWs? To answer that, let us use for an example the Iran hostage crisis, where for nearly 15 months from November 1979 to January 1981, 52 American diplomats and citizens were held captive in Iran. Without going into…
The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Why Nobody Came for Us
