Following similar logic was Teddy Roosevelt, then the mad fire-bombers of World War 2, capped by the ultimate terrorist fire-bombing of all at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, then by immense fire-bombing of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, etc., followed by
bombing of Iraq and a deliberate fire-bombing and massacre of retreating
At 10:26 PM 11/2/96 -0800, Dale Thorn wrote: prodigious fire- troops at the
end of the "Gulf War". Fighting the U.S. can be literal Hell!
Quick, how many times have you heard this pro-interference argument? The
Terror bombing of civilians was a European not an American invention, though. pro- people
will even show "proof" that the "savages" (it actually says this in the United States Declaration of Independence) were as mean to each other as the invaders were to them. What they fail to say, however, is that the "meanness" in such things as human sacrifice and so forth were imported to native cultures by "god-like" superiors who descended on the locals to "help" them to the next level of technology and hero-worship. Fooey!
The death rate among civilians in many pre civilized wars was as high as civilian death rates in many of our 20th Century wars. We have the piles of bones to prove it. In addition to peonage, serfdom, chattel slavery and the treatment of women as chattels, pre civilized people were considerably more xenophobic than the worst US redneck. Many had problems accepting the denizens of the next village a few miles away. They tended to be racists as well. And did I forget to mention infanticide and royalism. DCF