Original sentence: However, a closer US parallel is the question asked by Washington Irving in 1809: "What right had the first discoverers of America to land, and take possession of a country, without asking the consent of its inhabitants, or yielding them an adequate compensation for their territory.It has resemblances to debates in other countries.Launching his book The History Wars, historian Stuart Macintyre emphasised the political dimension of these arguments and said the Australian debate took its cue from the Enola Gay controversy in the United States on the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima
Edited sentence: Historian Stuart Macintyre has said similar debates about history occur in many countries and are often driven by political issues.However, a clearer US example is the question asked by Washington Irving in 1809: "What right had the first discoverers of America to land, and take possession of a country, without asking the consent of its inhabitants, or yielding them an adequate compensation for their territory.Macintyre says the Australian history wars take their cue from the 1994 Enola Gay controversy in the US) on the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki