[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

As someone educated in Western American history: arrgghh.

This author is all over the map, cherry picking weird theories while omitting immense amounts of data. He could probably argue that the 20th Century wasn’t violent at all, except for Wilson, “Ol’ Frank” Roosevelt, and Nixon.

After finding the biography of Thomas J. DiLorenzo, much is clarified. He is an economist, not a historian, and he is a kook. He has no idea of what he is talking about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._DiLorenzo

[knarf]

I read your wicki, and I don't see the kook.

Lot'a paper validating him, though

[Inyo-Mono]

I agree. Quoting Dee Brown? He didn't have chip on his shoulder did he? The author needs to read books published in the early 19th Century such as Wither's Chronicles of Border Warfare to get a better grasp of the early Indian Wars.