That hardly means it's a midway replica. And in the broadest sense all it means is that it's their version of a carrier that fits the same role and function as the Midway class.
If you take the context into account it's strongly implied that the Kilrathi Midway and the Confederation Midway are related asthetically, as that's what the entire paragraph is talking about.
I'm not sure what the point was of referencing the Port Broughton...did you think it was implied somehow that the Port Broughton was being interpreted as a Kilrathi Midway?
The Kilrathi joining Confed doesn't seem far fatched, but it may be some time. What with Confed being the ones that blew up their home world.
I disagree. Even in a fractured nature I can never see the Kilrathi Empire joining the Confederation - at least not without 500 years of time passing, and we're talking about a much shorted occurance here. I think the dissident elements of the Kilrathi would kep that from happening.
An aliance of sorts sounds more plausible. Especially after the Nephilem coming into the picture and the possibility of other evan more powerful races.
The Alliance happens at some point, we're just not sure when. Star*Soldier makes reference to it.
We all know about Tolwyn and how he was prosicuted on war crimes. Did we also hold tribunals for Kilrathi who commited atrocities? Yes, Thrakath and gramps were dead but there were still high ranking Kilrathi who gave/followed orders to use bio weapons and such. Or was it a case of give us the tech and well let it slide.
I doubt there were really any issues like this at all - most of the Kilrathi who ranked high enough to make those kinds of decisions were probably directing the war on Kilrah, which as we all know, was destroyed at the end of the war. There are strong implications in False Colors (and more subtly in Star*Soldier) that there was some collective guilt on the side of the Confederation over the destruction of the Kilrathi homeworld and that Confed was letting alot of things with the Kilrathi slide (This is similar to the post World War I period [just similar, okay? not exactly the same. I don't need twenty people telling me how wrong I am because the Kilrathi don't build U-Boats and Germany did.] in that Germany began to violate some of the treaty terms to regain it's former power, this manages to set the stage nicely for some post-Nephilim Kilrathi Human war again, though).
Comparing this war to any in our history is dificult simply because of it's duration and the staggering amount of life lost. The Kilrathi tried to nuke our planet so we blew up their planet and now everything is cool....?
You're obviously missing the subtly politics going on behind the scenes, again a similar reference to World War II. The Kilrathi High Council or clans or whatever they were did not always see eye to eye with Thrakath. I doubt they would have sued for peace, but the war (and subsequently) the peace would have conducted much differently if they had been in command then it did with Thrakath leading everything.
What's strongly implied here is that removing Thrakath and his Grandfather from power is not seen by most of the Kilrathi as reasons to start a Holy War against the Confederation, but rather a reason to thank them for removing a corrupt and un-objective force from power.
What I find the most interesting is not that things were 'cool' with the Kilrathi so much as that they seemed to understand when they were beaten. How an entire race whose never been defeated manages to accept defeat at total war is somewhat beyond me, but the mention in S*S that a large portion of them committed suicide helps me accept it (I said large portion specifically to avoid the majority/minority/how many debate).