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cudamark said

To be fair, the Indians were killing, kidnapping, raping, and pillaging each other long before the white man came. The history of the world is about conquest. I'm not going to feel guilt for things that happened in the past.....just about what we do now.

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Good point.. of course, the natives were "savages" while us white guys were supposed to be "civilized".. It's in our very nature as primates, though- even chimpanzees and gorillas engage in "politics" within their own societies, often with bloody results.

A couple more books to get aggravated by: A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, and Fatal Shore (about the, uh, "settling" of Australia) by Robert Hughes.