Obama '08?

Oh, I know that's what you are trying to do. But you're so bad at it, the effort fails completely. Try putting together a metaphor that more accurately models the situation if you want to get your point across.

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You somehow have this mindset that what everybody earns goes into one giant pie that is collectively owned by everyone, to be cut up into slices not according to who made the pie, contributed to the pie, or who owns the house where the pie was made, but by the number of people occupying the kitchen.

Interesting metaphor, Okie. Isn't this exactly how the US nation was founded? Wasn't this huge pie just cut up and handed out to folks who had not had any hand in making the pie. Wasn't this huge pie simply stolen rather than shared?

And to enable these inventors and the millions of other newcomers, the US government instituted a program of genocide upon Native Americans./quote]

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The greed and the butchery didn't stop at the borders of this rich land, it was carried and visited upon countless innocents the world over.

After the Native Americans had been practically wiped off the face of the Earth, attention was turned to the Philippines and other Latin American countries where the rape and pillage continued unabated for the next century.

It would be nice but probably too much to expect you to ever gain a more balanced perspective of reality instead of your template of liberal thought, JTT. For example, there has been genocide inflicted upon other human beings since the dawn of man. If you ever studied archeology, you would know there is evidence of terrible things done by Native Americans upon other Native Americans, including evidence of cannabalism. It did not suddenly start when Europeans arrived on these shores.

Regarding the Philippines, unless the United States had driven the Japanese out of that region, there would have been even more atrocities than had already taken place. I personally know of one Philippine man that served with the U.S. military during the World War, and was so grateful to this country for what we did for his country, that he brought his entire family here after the war, to enjoy the freedoms that are offered here. Because of his service, he and family were given automatic citizenship here.

I am not denying the atrocities and wrongs that ocurred, but I am simply trying to point out that you need to look at history more objectively and not so one sided. I have visited the Sand Creek Massacre Site in Eastern Colorado, and I would agree what happened there was a particularly egregious event. I would advise you however that if you would ever take the time to travel some of the southwest, including the Navajo and Hopi reservations, you could in fact find and meet some of the most patriotic Americans in this entire country. Learn about the Navajo Code Talkers, etc., a special group of Navajos that served in World War II. In other words, broaden your horizon of thought and break out of your world of liberal prejudice that you must have gained somewhere, I suspect from some liberal professor or university.

Regarding the Philippines, unless the United States had driven the Japanese out of that region, there would have been even more atrocities than had already taken place.

American Soldiers in the Philippines Write Home about the War

During the U.S. war in the Philippines between 1899 and 1904 (which grew out of the Spanish-American War that had erupted in 1898), ordinary American soldiers shared the nationalist zeal of their commanders and pursued the Filipino “enemy” with brutality and sometimes outright lawlessness. Racism, which flourished in the United States in this period, led American soldiers to repeatedly assert their desire “to get at the niggers.” An anti-imperialist movement, which rejected annexation by the United States of former Spanish colonies like Puerto Rico and the Philippines, attempted to build opposition at home to the increasingly brutal war. Although few soldiers joined the anti-imperialist cause, their statements did sometimes provide ammunition for the opponents of annexation and war. In 1899, the Anti-Imperialist League published a pamphlet of Soldiers Letters, with the provocative subtitle: “Being Materials for a History of a War of Criminal Aggression.” Historian Jim Zwick notes that the publication “was immediately controversial. Supporters of the war discounted the accounts of atrocities as the boasting of soldiers wanting to impress their friends and families at home or, because the identities of some of the writers were withheld from publication, as outright fabrications.” But the brutal portrayal of the war that is found in these letters (excerpts from twenty-seven of them are included here) is supported in other accounts.

Private Fred B. Hinchman, Company A. United States Engineers, writes from Manila, February 22d:

At 1:30 o’clock the general gave me a memorandum with regard to sending out a Tennessee battalion to the line. He tersely put it that “they were looking for a fight.” At the Puente Colgante [suspension bridge] I met one of our company, who told me that the Fourteenth and Washingtons were driving all before them, and taking no prisoners. This is now our rule of procedure for cause. After delivering my message I had not walked a block when I heard shots down the street. Hurrying forward, I found a group of our men taking pot-shots across the river, into a bamboo thicket, at about 1,200 yards. I longed to join them, but had my reply to take back, and that, of course, was the first thing to attend to I reached the office at 3 P.M., just in time to see a platoon of the Washingtons, with about fifty prisoners, who had been taken before they learned how not to take them.


Fred D. Sweet, of the Utah Light Battery:

The scene reminded me of the shooting of jack-rabbits in Utah, only the rabbits sometimes got away, but the insurgents did not.

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/58/

It would be nice but probably too much to expect you to ever gain a more balanced perspective of reality

Let's expand on that for a bit, Okie.
What do you expect would be the result of say, Canada or Saudi Arabia shutting off their supply of oil to the US?

Your tangent, while interesting, Okie, didn't address my question at all.

What do you expect would be the result of say, Canada or Saudi Arabia shutting off their supply of oil to the US?

So you have no interest in learning anything that does not fit your template either, is that right, ci? for example, information about atrocities by some Native Americans upon other Native americans . . . {etc}