tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post113797350900800429..comments2023-10-24T08:33:10.354-04:00Comments on Reformed Leftist (& Friends): Our Indian Wars Are Not Over YetPaul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-1138115892621078012006-01-24T10:18:00.000-05:002006-01-24T10:18:00.000-05:00Nadir: We see things very differently. If indeed y...Nadir: We see things very differently. If indeed you believe that the US has invaded Iraq in order to install a puppet government, then you cannot embrace certain aspects of my Civil War analogy. But even with this view of yours, the US-Indian wars don't seem to present more than just a few similarities. In the Indian wars, the US was attempting to overtake and directly control an entire Paul Huehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-1138050142598298132006-01-23T16:02:00.000-05:002006-01-23T16:02:00.000-05:00I don't think your Civil War analogy is even close...I don't think your Civil War analogy is even close because the "bringing democracy to Iraq" argument is a hoax.<BR/><BR/>The indigenous nations of North America were sovereign nations. Europeans came to this land and claimed it for their own. The only differences between those wars and Iraq is that in Iraq they have established a puppet government, and the goal is not to create a settler colonyNadirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00674871983955369648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-1138035568508681262006-01-23T11:59:00.000-05:002006-01-23T11:59:00.000-05:00I still think that we have more to learn from an a...I still think that we have more to learn from an analogy with the US Civil War. <BR/> - The enemy here wants in some areas to take civilization backwards, and in others to hold it from advancing, with respect to universal rights of all humans to own their own bodies and ideas.<BR/> - The enemy here permits old-fashioned chattel slavery, and some of its national supporters (Sudan, for one) have Paul Huehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-1138034438280494552006-01-23T11:40:00.000-05:002006-01-23T11:40:00.000-05:00One of the stupidest analyses that I've read. I kn...One of the stupidest analyses that I've read. I know of not a single supporter of the war who believes that the US is "god's chosen people". The original US war against Indians was premised on massacres and land confiscation. The current war is premised on establishing an independant democracy in an existing nation. We supporters of the current war, though, do indeed consider the battlefield Paul Huehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.com