Talk:Hundred Year War/@comment-201.42.190.134-20120219000014/@comment-3338975-20120313041215

"Love your enemies." The Fire Nation people were pretty much blindly led by the throne & its inner circle, indoctrinated from birth (or from extensive propaganda in Sozin's time, most likely) to believe that the war was simply due to uncouth opposition to the Fire Nation's intended beneficience to the rest of the world, as Zuko pretty much told his father in "The Day of Black Sun" after having seen the light of the actual truth on that subject. The responsibility for the genocide of the Air Nomads and the war in general rests squarely upon the leader's shoulders. . . which is partially why Zuko is having such a tough time in "The Promise"; he has to take the responsibility for the sins of his forefathers (as Iroh once put it), and try redeem the people of his nation from the power-plays of Sozin, (most likely) Azulon, and Ozai, without allowing devestating harm to come to his people in the process. (And I'm not exactly sure when "Legend of Aang" played up "the victim becomes the victimizer" card.) In any case, the point is to seek the good even of one's enemies, and rather bloodthirstly seeking revenge it would be better to seek a world in which the Earth Kingdom's need for justice is met without the Fire Nation civilians being harmed unnecessarily in the process.