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Rights of the Individual
Is this not a bit ridiculous? If you actually follow the conversation, Comnenustheone was the instigator, Whukid was merely responding to his comments.
Secondly, you're saying that Whukid has no right to call the Serbians for what they were because his great great grandfathers might have been involved with some very revisionist ideas on the American solution to the Native American raids.
Thirdly, if you're going to post rude comments on someone else's profile (I read it before it was removed), at least have the dignity to contact them in private, where they have the chance to respond. Atleast try to act in a civilized manner, especially when you're accusing someone else of being a savage. It's hardly fair for you to call him out as a hypocrite when you're not letting him respond to your attacks; it's the method of a coward.
So you're mad at him.... because he supports his military? How ignorant of him. Just for clarification, the picture was taken in Fallujah, when the US Marines cleared the city after the civilian population had left. They used armored vehicles to destroy structures where terrorists were lying in wait to keep their soldiers and Marines alive. The only other alternative was to flatten the city with carpet bombing, which is hardly a decent one.
I'm sorry, but this IS a massive display of ignorance; you're abusing the straw man repeatedly and attempting to hold a revisionist theory from 200 years ago over his head because he defended US intervention in the Balkans (which I highly disagree with). To follow it up, you're refusing to acknowledge that literally every other civilized nation at the time was also having issues with human rights. If he were a frenchman or an englishman, you wouldn't care, even though the violations being committed by them on the people of Africa and India were ungodly; the British came up with the idea of concentration camps!
I'm not sure if you'll understand this, but I'm currently living on an American Indian reservation. Yes, me! I live in the Navajo Nations, on the corner closest to Arizona. I literally have been studying this firsthand for years (tends to happen when you spend your life in a reservation); even the Navajo elders talk about how they got the jump on the white man and opened fire first. The things you were taught in school were often wrong or misleading; the US attacked the Navajo's after they "made peace" with the chiefs but individual Navajo warriors attacked a homestead outside Flagstaff.
Now, was it wrong the way the US treated the indians? Yes. Was it exclusively the white man's fault? hell no! The Apache and Comanche tribes especially were essentially headhunters; your status in society was determined by your rap sheet as a warrior. That was a far cry from the mindset of the settlers, who were the first ones to outlaw slavery and segregation in California.
If anything, both parties were equally at fault for the bloodshed that occurred.