What A.Pole meant, I think, is that Chechens and Apaches have sth in common - they don't have their own state and they're few left (exaggeration).
We (Poles) didn't have our own state for 123 years. Does it mean that during those years we had no rights and anybody (Russians, Germans,) could do with us what they wanted?
I really believe Americans have good intentions. They are just unable to understand what it means for a nation to be devoid of its own state.