[Wikipedia-l] Real owner of each country

[Poor, Edmund W]

!> Taken to an extreme, Helga's arguments could be used to prove that 
!> Iberia belongs to the Irish (choose a group of Celts) -- although 
!> she'd probably stop at the Visigoths, since they're Germans.
!>
!Now there's an idea!!  I believe that the Galicians were originaly a 
!Celtic people.  But there are also Galicians in Poland, so maybe Iberia 
!should be Polish. ... That or Ireland should be Polish.  :-D
!Eclecticology

I think the real owner of the earth is God (as defined by the Unification Church), so any country not giving fealty to Him is "occupying" that territory unrighteously. Perhaps this POV is what enables me to view the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Helga controversy with equanimity: it doesn't matter who says what, because they're all thieves anyway!

Who is the real, rightful owner of the West Bank, or Ireland, or Prussia? From my POV it's God, but none of the other contributors has the sense to realize it!! :-)

Anyway, I hope this explains why I find it easy to avoid getting emotionally involved and sucked in to edit wars on this sort of thing. 

I just stick to the bedrock principle of NPOV: A said B about C...

Ed Poor