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[newfreep]

"War, what is it good for?" - the original title of "War & Peace". - Elaine Benes

[sodpoodle]

It doesn’t take a degree in anthropology or archeology to recognize that all creatures great and small share one fundamental, innate instinct: “Kill or be killed...for food, water, territory, procreation and a comfortable climate in which to raise progeny. Neighbors, be damned.”

Religion and spirituality are a by-product of a thriving, inquisitive human society that has the time and security for intellectual pursuits....after one has established dominion.

IMHO

[Paine in the Neck]

...massacred, maimed and scalped during a deadly raid in the early 14th century

Well, what do you know?! They didn't learn scalping from the Brits as a bounty counting technique. Another ahistorical PC myth shot down in flames by objective truth.

[Natural Law]

"The North American continent could not have been kept as a game preserve for the noble red man."

- Theodore Roosevelt

[A_perfect_lady]

But why have humans found the call of battle so irresistible?

Because when you deal with OTHER humans long enough, sooner or later you start to think about now nice the world would be without them!

[Twotone]

My charming nephew, whose idols are Cornell West & Noam Chomsky, is certain that all evil in the world has been caused by the white man. After all, he has a college degree from Evergreen in WA & knows everything. This article must be wrong. No war or murder could possibly have taken place without white folks around!

[DannyTN]

They left out the part about the Christians unfairly and brutally conquering these “peaceful” tribes.

Sounds to me like the arrival of the Christians ended cultures rife with violence and brought an era that was considerably more peaceful.

I can think of another culture that needs to be conquered in similar fashion, complete with culture replacement.

[Realism]

A MILITARY HISTORY TIMELINE OF
WAR AND CONFLICT ACROSS THE GLOBE
3000 B.C. to A.D. 2008

http://www.warscholar.com/Timeline.html#Modern

[Claud]

For decades, researchers working in the Americas were in a state of denial about the prevalence of ancient warfare. They viewed the Maya largely as peaceful astronomer-priests, the prehistoric Pueblo people as tranquility-loving architects, and Great Plains bison-hunters as harmonious societies who only engaged in warfare after the arrival of the Europeans.

Really? What researchers were those? I'm in the field, and I've have a tough time believing any serious American archaeologist or historian would be that utterly irresponsible.

It is well known that the war-torture-cannibalism complex of the Iroquois for instance dates hundreds of years earlier than Columbus. Heck, even the legends of the Iroquois themselves say that the League was founded to stop the bloody recriminatory wars among the 5 nations. Cusick's legendary history of the Five Nations is filled with wars as well.

[Longtom]

This is done so that the Mayans, Aztecs and Plains Indians can look like the happy children of the forest who were cruely oppressed by the evil whites. Sucks when your favorite victim group turns out to be a bunch of fine young cannibals.

[Sherman Logan]

I can recommend Lawrence H. Keeley: War before Civilization, New York, 1996.

Excellent book. Shows how primitive warfare is far more destructive than most modern warfare.