Yeah, you are.
During the American Revolution, Washington sent General Sullivan into the Mohawk Valley in New York to destroy the Iroquois Confederacy, which had remained loyal to their allegiance to the British monarchy. Those who survived fled to Canada, where they remain to this day.
Andrew Jackson won his military reputation in the Creek War of 1813. (That's Creek as in the Indian tribe.) As President, Jackson deported the Indians living east of the Mississippi, in the tragedy known as the Trail of Tears.
Have you ever heard of the Blackhawk War? Have you ever heard of the Seminole Wars? Do you know about the troops Lincoln sent to fight the Sioux in 1863? Have you ever heard of Phil Sheridan? You know, they guy sho said the only good Indians he had ever seen were dead? Do you know why the Indians were so eager to kill Custer? Od you know anything about his career in the West before the Battle of the Greasy Grass (what white boys call Little Bighorn)? Do you know what was done to the Apaches? Do you know what was done to the various small, impoverished Indian bands of California?
Let's skip a head a little, to the Spanish War. There's an excellent small volume of essays by Samuel Clemens entitled A Pen Warmed Up in Hell. There are a couple of good essays in there about U.S. Troops using artillery with high explosive shells against the villages of the natives of the Philippines, and then giving themselves medals for it. I highly recommend Clemens' essay To the Person Sitting in Darkness. I'm sure you have heard about the Sadinistas and the Contras in Nicaragua. Are you aware that U.S. Marines occupied Nicaragua from 1912 to 1933? I'm sure you've heard about Blackjack Pershing invading Mexico in 1916 (at least i think you ought to know that). Did you know that U.S. Marines and soldiers landed at Veracruz in 1913 and seized the customs house? (Douglas MacArthur disobeyed his commander and took of on his own into the countryside. He was recommended for the Medal of Honor, but it was quietly buried because he had disobeyed his commander.)
I'm barely getting warmed up here, Frank. Yes, you are very ignorant is you are willing to claim that the United States has acted with more restraint than other major powers.
This from the guy who takes every opportunity to call me names. I said nothing negative about you until you came out with that bullshit about the United States not having been as brutal as other world powers. (Yet you want to claim that you're not putting anyone else down.) Then i called bullshit. I have called you ignorant because of the obvious ignorance you display. Ignorance is not a character fault, and it is not denigrating you to point out your ignorance. Ignorance is a preeminently curable condition. I suspect you won't take the cure, though.
By the way, yelling about it won't change anything, Mr. Civility.
You're the one who is shouting. You seem to be the one with the anger management problems. You're trying all your school yard tricks, aren't you? Like claiming my life is crappy. It's sad that you can't deal with contradiction without recourse to insults and name-calling. Try to get a grip and calm down, Frank. You're not doing yourself any good. You could do more good by devoting some time to curing your ignorance. Then you might no longer say silly things such as the United States has not been brutal.
I'm doing fine Frank. You really need to get some new material, that **** y ou've been using for years got old long ago. You display an appalling ignorance when you try to claim that the United States has shown more restraint than other world powers and that they haven't been as brutal.
That's the important thing here, Frank, curing your ignorance.
With your stubbornness, though, i don't hold out much hope.
Big game? Ah-hahahahahahahahahahahaha . . . what a bullshit artist.
Take your pick Frank:
Frank Apisa wrote:I am simply saying here that we have been relatively less savage and barbaric than other prior world powers have been.
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They showed much less restraint than we are...although I acknowledge that we have been buffoons at times.
Frank Apisa wrote:But right now...it is my opinion that our exercise of power is relatively restrained compared with what others have done while they were at the top of the power heap.
These statements can only be the product of an appalling ignorance. The nasty personal remarks you like to sling around are just an attempt to deflect the valid criticism of your statements. You're getting your ass kicked here and you can't handle it. As i've already pointed out, pointing out your ignorance is not "derogating" your intelligence,and ignorance is preeminently curable condition. The problem is that you prefer your opinions to reality. What's that bullshit you like to peddle? The reality is what it is? The reality contradicts your claims about the restraint of the United States.
