Bravo! for that piece Bob,
This behaviour was consistent around the globe,
South Africa, Australia, Tasmania
I believe I recently read where the US was the first country to ever use
chemical weapons when US soldiers handed beef
to the starving Indians that was infected purposefully with cholera.



| Stretching the point somewhat, and not very much if you happen to be a
| native American, the U.S. Army engaged in "foreign wars" when it set about
| exterminating several Indian tribes on land that the Indians "owned" in the
| sense they had always had full freedom of movement upon it, notwithstanding
| the ongoing conflicts between various Indian tribes.
|
| In signing treaties with Indians, the American government certainly appeared
| to acknowledge the existence of aboriginal nations. But of course, most of
| the treaties were resulted from shameful pretense, and the Indians were
| doomed from the start, despite Custer's Last Stand. (I visited the site of
| the Battle of the Little Bighorn a few years ago. It's an incredibly moving
| place. It's not too hard to imagine yourself there on that sunny morning,
| with death a near certainty for the U.S. troopers. Small markers point out
| the exact spots where many individual Indians and soldiers died. Altogether
| it's a quiet, beautiful, and eerie place.)
|
| I recently watched a documentary about the last of the Indian resistance and
| was reminded that it seemed very much like a preview of the Second World War
| when the Germans were exterminating Jews in Eastern Europe. There's not much
| difference between Lidice, where Germans destroyed an entire Czech
| community, and the "Battle" of Wounded Knee, where Americans virtually
| murdered hundreds of natives, most of them women and children who were ill
| and trying to seek aid from the soldiers.