[pierrem15]

No. Through the brutality of the Wars of Religion the Europeans slowly evolved a notion of distinguishing combatants from non-combatants and setting limits on the treatment of prisoners. By the early 19th century, the actions of British troops after taking Badajoz with 3 days of rapine and plunder was considered a great blemish on the British Army.

And even as savage as the Europeans of the 17th century still were, inured to public executions, burnings at the stake, etc., when the French and English encountered the Eastern Woodlands Indians, early European settlers were shocked by the savagery the Indians showed one another. The way the Hurons and the Iroquois slow-roasted opponents over a low fire (and the latter many a French Jesuit) formed a particularly strong impression.

[Miami Rebel]

One doesn’t have to ignore the viciousness of various tribes to acknowledge that we, the enlightened bearers of the torch of civilization, descended into barbarism ourselves.

[NFHale]

Get a copy of the book “for a few acres of snow“, by Robert Leckie (the marine of Guadalcanal, “helmet for my pillow“, and about 40 other history books).

He dispels any myths about the “noble red man” going back to the French and Indian war and before. They were human beings, just like us, and just like us. They had all of the same faults and failures and virtues and emotions that we have.

Our country was expanding; they were in the way. It’s the way it was back then, and nothing anyone says now or does now will change that.

As usual, it’s more leftist bullshit designed to separate and cause conflict.

Indians served honorably in World War II; a very famous American Indian Marine helped raise the flag on Iwo Jima.

They are part of us, part of our history, and as much American as we are, and the past should be left where it is… In the past, and we learn from it, both what not to do, and what to do to make things better.