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Hello brainwashed american.
>>It's called colonism - you can't afford to have another pre-existing culture around when you are trying to both expand and preserve your own.
Really? Perserving your own land is nice, but what gives you the right to expand into the land of another nation by force for no reason? What threat do they pose? They were eager at first to trade and learn from the Europeans, there was far less agressiveness ont heir part then the colonials. The colonials all wanted land, so they took it, that's the brass tacks of it.
>>Moreover the US could not afford a powerful secondary nation within its borders.
Hence the "management" of the "indian problem".
Powerful? The indians posed no threat to the colonies at all, 80% of the tribes were peaceful and were more interested in trade and exchange of ideas then war. Even the Pawnee, the most vicious of the tribes, first approached the colonials with the idea of learning about these strangers, it wasn't until their first greeting party was slaughtered that they did what any logical people would do, defend themselves.
>>Allowing the german people to unleash the angers and frustrations (that arose as a result of the postwar economic fucktitude)
the young america had shit-assed economy after the revolutionary war, and america was more than happy to vent on the natives. The method that hitler used to try and exterminate the jews was modeled after America's own brand of genocide against the natives.
>> Given that such a war upon the natives was inevitable
such a war inevitable? since when? that's liek saying a war with canada is inevitable simply because they share the same landmass with us! you're so DQN my head spins.
>>The Main thing is, the land was there to be claimed (regardless of whatever alien people said it was theirs). Someone was going to exploit it to improve their own life eventually.
THERE TO BE CLAIMED? Alien people??? The american natives were there hundreds of years before the colonials, dipshit! They cultivated the land and made it what it was, their blood sweat and tears did that, I think they deserve some claim to it after all that work.
>>Ok, now America: stop pretending to be sorry for something you never did yourself! Nobody made the land therefore nobody truly deserves it! It's in human nature to do these things!
This is the most half-assed cheap cop-out I've ever seen. You make americans look bad by enforcing a steriotype that americans are stupid, ignorant, never take responsibility for their actions, and will do anything to further their own ends.