From Stalin to McCarthy to Nixon to Watergate to Reagan to Bush, the outright lies of the MSM have distorted our own understanding of the very world around us.
The head of the snake is the AQTimes.
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Good article. Thanks.
I remember a mention in an article somewhere a few years ago about a nineteenth-century memoir by a transported british convict who escaped in the 1830's and spent twelve years with the Australian aboriginies. According to him the clans were incessantly warring, almost none of the men lived to middle age.
Quite the contrast to the popular image of recent decades.
Superb article.
In the last 30 years archaelogists have decided that the cliff dwellings of the American Southwest, with their obvious defensive purpose, actually had nothing to do with warfare.
Apparently, after many centuries living in indefensible pueblos on the mesa tops, they just decided, for no particular reason, to move into the incredibly inconvenient but highly defensible cliff dwellings.
From Stalin to McCarthy to Nixon to Watergate to Reagan to Bush, the outright lies of the MSM have distorted our own understanding of the very world around us.
The head of the snake is the AQTimes.
recommending Mark Ritchie's "Spirit of the Rainforest" (again) for further thoughts along this line.
Keeley wrote a book called "War Before Civilization," which I read some years back, which covers this subject (doubtless why Steyn quoted him). It's an eye-opening dissection of the "noble savage" myth. Can't wait to read Wade's "Before the Dawn."
Some of my ancestors were the Huron, and the Iroquois did the same to them. Of course, our problem was that we allied ourselves with the French white men, who were not very good fighters even back in those days.
Of course, we were not as good of fighters as the Iroquois, so that may have had something to do with it.
There has been war since Cain killed Abel. There is NO peace in the heart of ANY man, white, black or otherwise. Just like there will be no peace in the Middle East till God decides otherwise.
Bump for later.
REALLY good article.
After Braddock's defeat in the French and Indian War, young Washington survived, but the camp-follower women did not. One pregant young lady was dismembered, she and her infant thrown in a pot, and they were eaten. Historian Alan Eckert points out that they ate her a bit underdone because they were in a hurry.
The Indian in "Last of the Mohicans" who eats the heart of the English commander is not a bad portrayal of a lot that went on. (The whites had their moments, too, such as the murder of Chief Logan's family, and the massacre of the Moravian {Christian} Indians.)
The point is that they weren't pure and peaceful savages.
I understand that these traditions were totally rejected by one noble warrior who came on the scene and was disgusted by this behavior....a guy named Tecumseh.
Snicker...
O, NE ZOT! This is just too much, before lunch and everything!
But we're supposed to believe that they were bucolic, pastoral people with an advanced civilization utterly destroyed by the evil Spaniards, who then tortured them into Catholicism even as they plundered their palaces.
History in the last 30 years has been the study of revisionist claptrap, not fact.
Liberals are such effing idiots.
For any Freeper's interested, there was a quite prescient volume written on this subject qquite some time ago: "A History of Warfare", By John Keegan.
I heartily recommend it to anyone interested in the methods and motivations of ancient warfare. Without the political correctness.
It has the added bonus of turning Clauswitz on his head.
Just a suggesstion.
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